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"It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open."
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."

"The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life."

"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"

"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."

"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."

"But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything."

"Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts."

"Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?"

"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
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"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke."

"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."

"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
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