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"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
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"When you see a married couple coming down the street the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one who's mad."
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"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London."
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"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"In fact it was altogether an odd dog, of uncertain breed, or breeds. It was large and black, but its hair was tufty, its body scrawny and clumsy, and its manner edgy, anxious, verging on the completely neurotic. Whenever it came to a halt for a moment or so, the business of starting up again often seemed to cause it trouble, as if it had difficulty in remembering where it had left each of its legs."
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"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals."
Life
"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
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"I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small."
Appearance
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
Christian
"The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity."
Time
"Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods."
Seasons
"My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it."
Friendship
"My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs."
Family
"But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty."
Life
"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself."
Strength
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