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“When art finds no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.”
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“Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.”
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“... I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.”
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“Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!”
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“Dread of one's own aging leads to fear and dislike of old people, and the fear feeds upon itself. In Western society this cycle of dread has been going on a long, long time.”
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“... he marveled anew at the infinite variety of marriage, that relationship at once so private and public, so hedged with convention and yet so anarchical.”
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“... what one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.”
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“Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.”