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"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told."

"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

"Somewhere between 'not enough' and 'not at all.' I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. But they never gave that to me. Never, not once."
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"How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture."


"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."


"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
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