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And now in a twilight once more lit by candles, the age of electricity having come and gone,
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all the shadows and light and splendorous horrors that make up the riptides of life on earth.
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En periode da hun lever et liv som foles som frihet, iblant ligger med naboen i etasjen under men nekter a ha et forhold, hvisker "Jeg angrer ingenting" til speilet i hundre hotellrom fra London til Singapore, og om morgenen tar pa seg klaerne som gjor henne uovervinnelig, et liv der oyeblikkene av tomhet og skuffelse er minimale..."
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I was in the hotel," he said finally. "I followed your footprints in the snow." There were tears on his face. "Okay," someone said, "but why are you crying?" "I'd thought I was the only one," he said."
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they shared a suspicion that the world might prove, in the end, to have been either a mirage or a particularly elaborate hoax.
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Miranda rested the side of her face on the desk--the perfection of the cool laminate against her burning skin--and considered the poverty of the room. Poverty not in the economic sense, but in the sense of not being for the gravity of the moment, an insufficient setting--for what?
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There was something obnoxious, he thought, in people who introduced themselves by their surnames while calling one by one's first.
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had an idea--too sentimental to speak aloud and he knew none of his divorced friends would ever own up to it--that something must linger, a half-life of marriage, some sense memory of love even if obviously not the thing itself. He thought these people must mean something to one another, even if they didn't like one another anymore.
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I'm talking about these people who've ended up in one life instead of another and they are just so disappointed. Do you know what I mean? They've done what's expected of them. They want to do something different but it's impossible now, there's a mortgage, kids, whatever, they're trapped. Dan's like that.
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Hell is other actors," Kirsten said. "Also ex-boyfriends."
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Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it's true?
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Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
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She tried to keep this opinion to herself and occasionally succeeded.
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Sometimes you don't know you're going to throw a grenade until you've already pulled the pin.
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If there's pleasure in action, there's peace in stillness.
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What is time travel if not a security problem?
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I would rather do a dangerous job than a job that makes me comatose with boredom.
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Maybe you're right. Turns out reality is more important than we thought," Dion said.
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