I was with book, as a woman is with child.
("Till We Have Faces: A Novel of Cupid and Psyche")
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The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.
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Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.
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when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessionswhen the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.
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The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
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