"whose steps were a restless substitute for flight."
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"She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt."
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"There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible."
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"We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too"
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"This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now."
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"I would like to step out of my heart and go walking beneath the enormous sky."
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"An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures."
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"[W]isdom consists in following Providence step by step. And you can be sure of the truth of a maxim which seems paradoxical, namely, that he who is hasty falls back in the interests of God."
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"I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails."
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"I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain."
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"I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business."
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"To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power."
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"When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that."
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"If virtue precede us every step will be safe."
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"A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment."
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"The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error."
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"The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters."
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"The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet)."
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"[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought."
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"Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?"
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