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"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

"She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies."

"You are special creation."
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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."


"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."


"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."


"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."


"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
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