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"I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can."
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"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."
"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
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