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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other."
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"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
Woman

"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place."
Love

"Daring is not safe against daring men."
Man

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."
Strength

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
Ability

"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love."
Love

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
Luck

"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
People

"Where belief is painful we are slow to believe."
Trust

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
Desire
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