“ I went into a lather of misery watching them, and thinking of you, and how in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other that they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, headon, eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin. ”
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“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”
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“ Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else — and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian? ”
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“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”
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“ I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. ”
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“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”
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“ We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door. ”
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“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”
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“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”
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“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”
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“ Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. ”
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“ New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American. ”
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“ I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure. ”
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“ A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ”
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