"a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation."
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"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?"
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"I like seeing people when they can't see me."
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"Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation-- every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water."
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"Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere."
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"They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them."
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"I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness."
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"Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me."
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"When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe."
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"Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself"
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"People's clothes ought to be buried with them."
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"I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life."
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"Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can."
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"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."
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"It is rather exciting to write by moonlight."
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"Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real."
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"Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows."
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"What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people."
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"Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder."
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"Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl."
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