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Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

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She had developed a passionate longing for making other people comfortable at her own expense. The secret satisfactions of her heart had been when she succeeded in getting other people into armchairs, without their knowing she was doing it, and with nothing left for herself but something small and spiky in a corner.

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Relays of nurses left her with the relieved alacrity of acrobats alighting from a trapeze.

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Love comes into your being like a tidal wave... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

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