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““There seemed to be nothing left in the world, for I felt that Roland had taken with him all my future and Edward all my past.””

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An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

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“[I] wondered if he was looking up at that same moon, far away, and thinking of me as I was thinking of him.”

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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize…

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Venice is all sea and sculpture.

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We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

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