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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconc...more

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They looked at one another, and their hearts died within them.

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There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

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Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man’s a blacksmith, and one’s a whitesmith, and one’s...more

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How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my ...more

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Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender r...more

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Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mo...more

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Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.