“Has it ever happened to you,” Léon went on, “to come across some vague idea of one’s own in a book, some dim image that comes back to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment
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She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris.
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in a stammering voice
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In her life’s isolation she centered on the child’s head all her shattered, broken little vanities.
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seeing that she was hastening to offer herself to that which but a while ago had so angered her, not in the least conscious of her prostitution.
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for his arrondissement
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For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat
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human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
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We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.