"The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another."
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"Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended."
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"Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody."
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"I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same."
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"She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance."
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"The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was."
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"Golden is a surface colour."
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