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"The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one tiny human point, the window of a shriveled soul, poignant and selfembittered."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked."
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"He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous."
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"Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London."
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"I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
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"Their faces were as a rule good-natured rather than beautiful."
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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."
Friendship
"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not."
Love
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
Writing
"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
Soul
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
Man
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
Home
"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."
Fear
"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."
Religion
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
History
"The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails."
Art
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