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  1. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say toyou, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should say it as urgentlyas if I were standing in the room with you. That life-whateverelse it is-is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. ThatNature {meaning Death} always wins but that doesn't mean wehave to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we're not alwaysso glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway:wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keepingeyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we risefrom the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it isa glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.
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  2. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I'd met him was that he never afraid
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  3. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.
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  4. P.D. James _ The Children of Men

    I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
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  5. P.D. James _ The Children of Men

    Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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  6. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you."
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