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...when he possessed her, they seemed to swoon together at the very borderland of life’s mystery.

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She had resolved to never take another step backward.

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

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She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some p...more

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She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

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The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

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She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.

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The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. It seems to be a provision of Nature; a de...more