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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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And will I like being called a jazz-baby? You will love it.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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I've got an adjective that just fits you.

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but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

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Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

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It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

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She was incurably dishonest.

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