"This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings."
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"When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes."
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"The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty."
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"You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that."
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"I've always quite liked the idea of being an archeologist, sort of scrubbing around in the dirt."
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"Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned."
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"It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt."
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"My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt."
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"The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt."
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"The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves."
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"111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best."
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"Psychologically, it's better that I think that I'm dirt."
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