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	Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.   
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	I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.   
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	I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.   
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	I didn't realize you needed a response. When Hamlet is giving a monologue, he just goes on and on by himself.   
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	I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.   
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	You’re the only one for me. I came back from the dead for you, Daisy. Twice.   
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	There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.   
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	Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.   
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	I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.   
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	Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.   
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	Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.   
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	Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.   
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	He wanted to grow old with her, or not grow old at all.   
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	Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.   
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	Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.   
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	I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.   
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	I woke up this morning,” Gabriel said, “thinking of nothing more than rolling over and pulling you into my arms and kissing you again. Kissing: only kissing. As if I were a green boy of fourteen. In case you don’t realize it, Kate, kissing is not a man’s usual inclination in the morning.   
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	Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.   
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	They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.   
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	It’s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he can’t be yours, then never to love at all.   
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	Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.   
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	Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.   
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	God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.   
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	I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.   
