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“Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?”
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“... every Place is Pleasant to a Chearful Mind and Lively Thoughts, which makes the Life Happy, for True Happiness Lives Within the Mind or Soul, not Without it, and whosoever build their Happiness Without it, shall Miss it when they Seek it, nay, those Buildings are like Airy Castles, which Vanish to nothing ...”
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“Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.”
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“There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.”
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“... I think we must love flowers the way we do because they're so perishable.”
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“Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing tin pans all over, pouring water on pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortals will accept almost any 'natural explanation' offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.”
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“For our ruin or our salvation, the thing we long for with a great enough longing is always given us.”
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“People so reasonable, so devoted, so strongly loving and hard working should have been exempt, one feels, from the vagaries of a malicious fate.”