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The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.


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He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.



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Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.



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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.



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The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.



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They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.



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And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.



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If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.



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Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.



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