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“Her voice was heavy, throaty, expressionless. She threw it like a weapon ...”
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“Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.”
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“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
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“... she always believed in the old addage, 'Leave them while you're looking good.'”
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“cosmopolitan: / look like you don't really look; / act like you don't really act; / sit like you wouldn't sit if you were home alone.”
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“If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.”
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“Ah! life is delicious; well to live long, and see the darkness breaking, and the day coming! The day when soul shall not thrust back soul that would come to it; when men shall not be driven to seek solitude, because of the crying out of their hearts for love and sympathy. Well to live long and see the new time breaking! Well to live long; life is sweet, sweet, sweet!”
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“... Cora felt ambivalence rise in her like a genie without wishes to bestow.”