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“She met the adoring impertinence in his eyes with the despair a mother feels when she comes in after some hours' absence and finds her little boy still playing with his tin trumpet.”
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“The beautiful, the beloved Miss Milner — she is no longer beautiful — no longer beloved — no longer — tremble while you read it! — no longer — virtuous.”
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“You say that prejudice is cruel! This comes from her being both blind and deaf. She closes her eyes that she may stab you boldly; she knows very well that if once she were to look at you, she could not do it. She stops her ears not to hear your supplications nor your cry of agony .... If, at least, she could leave you some traces of your own self! If, in destroying she would not disfigure you! If you might remain a man amongst men, likeable, warm, cordial; if she did not transform you into a hateful object!”
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“The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.”
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“The only thing worse than failing to achieve your dream is never having one — or never taking a risk to reach for the vision with which you've been gifted.”
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“One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.”
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“Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.”
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“When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message — the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.”