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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Being Card Evening Manage Over Pass Suffer Table Thing
Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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Main Thing Together Welded
We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.

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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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Child No Plenty Spare
Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.

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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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Another Even Relation Respond Way Write
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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Do Fatal Most Thing
Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.

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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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Basket Bottle Corruption Grape Meanness Profit
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.

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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Been Before Each never Other Thing
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Delicate Organ Small
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

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Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
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Bourbon Drink First Musical Nothing Pour Sunday
justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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Chimera Delusion Equal Flat Itself Yardstick
You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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All Around Bust Day Loose Some Something Traipse
We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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Cast Charitable Go Together
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.

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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Being Else Someone Thing
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
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Fluid Glimpse Illumination Passage Radiance Saw Swift Valor
I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.

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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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Blinder Sideway Think
The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Blankness Could Even Few Her Hut Last Must Left Note Symphony

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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

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