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“She did not like the unnaturalness altogether of grown-up people, all alone without children, playing at a child’s game…. All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.”

Need to save this comparison:
“He looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.”

Such a great quote: “A feeling akin to the feeling of a sailor who sees by the compass that the direction in which he is swiftly moving is far from the right one…that every instant is carrying him farther and farther away, and that to admit to himself his deviation from the right direction is the same as admitting his certain ruin.”