"I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat."
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"I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold"
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"My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?"
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"Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one...I can well believe it."
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"...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down."
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"I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money."
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"How can a young man like to wear a beard?"
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"I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray."
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"Oh, comfortable cocoa!"
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"I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness."
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"I wanted so terribly to be good to him."
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"How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!"
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"Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper."
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"The Devil's out of fashion."
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"I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them."
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"The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort."
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"So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy."
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"He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively."
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"Prayer's a very tricky business."
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"...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver."
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