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“Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.”
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“Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.”
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“Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.”
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“She could still taste the plump fine oysters from Zeeland that he had ordered for her last meal in the world, the dry sparkle of the vintage Rudesheimer which had cost him the fees of at least five visits to patients, and the ice cream richly sauced with crushed glazed chestnuts which she loved.”
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“Gerald's straight, round writing had, to her imagination, a queer totter, like someone running for life in tight shoes.”
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“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself — for it is from the soil, both from its depth and from its surface, that a river has its beginning.”
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“If Ruby intended her party to be a salon it was a typographical error.”
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“One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave — our own self. Get on good terms with that companion — learn to live with yourself.”