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Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and ...more

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I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me...more

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There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

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I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the fr...more

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I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a little, which was perfectly normal. There was no ...more