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"I am entirely selfish,” he said ruefully, “and always hoping that someone will tell me to behave, someone will make herself responsible for me and make me be grown-up." […] The only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. "Why don't you grow up by yourself?" she asked him, and wondered how many people how many women—had already asked him that.
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“Peace, Eleanor thought concretely; what I want in all this world is peace, a quiet spot to lie and think, a quiet spot up among the flowers where I can dream and tell myself sweet stories.”
— Jul 03, 2025 10:48AM
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“Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.”
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Eleanor looked at her feet again. "It's wicked," she said inadequately. "I mean—on my feet. It makes me feel like I look like a fool."
"You've got foolishness and wickedness somehow mixed up."
— Jun 30, 2025 08:32PM
"You've got foolishness and wickedness somehow mixed up."
