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"Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience..."
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"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
"Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy - just a boy."
"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."
"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world."
"The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?"
"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
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"Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!"
"I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self."
"One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters; but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop."
"If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it."
"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."
"You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!"
"That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities, now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way."
"Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use them as scenery, other days when I want them as society; so that, as you see, my library represents a makeshift compromise between looks and brains, and the collectors look down on me almost as much as the students."
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