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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's...more

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He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, ...more

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Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.

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An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated i...more

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I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

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Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can ...more

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Each time you happen to me all over again.

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Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to fe...more

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Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always ...more

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The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a gre...more

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As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by...more

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The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presenc...more