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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."

"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."

"You must burn with the desire to seek new things and investigate information."

"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"

"It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them."

"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing."

"There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking."
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"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

"Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient."

"For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and-by some sad, strange irony-it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy."

"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
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