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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.Edith Wharton
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The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branchesEdith Wharton
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The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anestheticEdith Wharton
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I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.Edith Wharton
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...how much did pride count in the ebullition of passions in his breast?Edith Wharton
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But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without wind, in a soft universal diffusion more confusing than the gusts and eddies of the morning. It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer.Edith Wharton