It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
("The Age of Innocence")
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The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
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