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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

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We all must try to be good.

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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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The victor belongs to the spoils.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

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Murder your darlings.

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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

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Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

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