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“No one chair should be isolated ...”
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“Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.”
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“I didn't realize then that there was a world of difference between being stupid and being uneducated.”
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“My heart has written you several epistles in reply, but the hand could not be spared. Oh for some spiritual daguerreotype, by which thoughts might spontaneously write themselves!”
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“The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal — or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.”
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“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
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“... invariably at the last minute somebody in the family unearthed a big bore who of course had no friends, no other place to go for Thanksgiving.”
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“We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.”