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“The separation had never really parted Mary and her father; they had never lost the habit of each other. You see those sympathies sometimes between father and daughter: inarticulate, usually, like the speech of rock to rock, but absolutely indestructible.”
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“How cruely sweet are the echoes that start / When memory plays an old tune on the heart.”
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“Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.”
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“Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.”
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“To be always right — was there a more enraging faculty in the world? Was it a faculty, or a virtue? If it was a virtue, it was certainly the most disagreeable of all the virtues — a tyrannical prig of a virtue, the sort of virtue which makes you want to go and wallow in vice.”
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“... the 'public' — a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.”
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“Abnormal — perverted — against nature — he could hear the epithets that would be hurled against him, and that he would deserve. Yes, but what had nature been about, in giving him the soul of a woman in the body of a man?”
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“You could not help catching confidence off him, like a cold.”