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"The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."
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"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."
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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
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"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
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