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“I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.”
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“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”
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“One person never tells anything about another person. Only about herself.”
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“Here's all I know about pain: Nobody wants any, and everybody gets some. That's all anybody knows about pain right there in one little sentence.”
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“Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.”
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“Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.”
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“They were always reading the law to her at home, which might not have been so bad if her father and mother had read from the same book.”
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“Floyd made the horn stutter, then played it smooth. It keened and it wailed. It asked the people what their troubles were and blew them back to them. Floyd got out of the way and let his horn carry him out to the edges of himself. There wasn't anything that horn couldn't say.”