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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

"I don't reckon it's allowed, going round setting fire to people, said Adam. "Otherwise people'd be doin' it all the time."It's all right if you're religious, said Brian reassuringly. "And it stops the witches from goin' to Hell, so I expect they'd be quite grateful if they understood it properly."
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"If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears."

"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same."

"Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude."

"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."

"Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all."

"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"

"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."

"And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?' he said softly.'Assuredly,' she said, 'provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything."

"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."
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