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The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.


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Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.



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I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.



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We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.



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...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.





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