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This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk - real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope for?Elizabeth Von Arnim
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How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.Elizabeth Von Arnim
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He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear headElizabeth Von Arnim
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...she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgement.Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.Elizabeth Von Arnim
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One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life.Elizabeth Von Arnim