Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.
("Doctor Zhivago")
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You come out; it is still dark. The door creaks, or perhaps you sneeze, or the snow crunches under your foot, and hares start up from the far cabbage patch and leap away, leaving the snow criss-crossed with tracks. In the distance dogs begin to howl and it takes a long time before the quieten down. The cocks have finished their crowing and have nothing left to say. Then dawn breaks.
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