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"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."
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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."

"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."

"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
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