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Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

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We understand more than we know.

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How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, h...more

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We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment...more

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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

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We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.