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So this was her kingdom: an octagonal house, a roomful of books, and a bear.

She makes her little house to shine, she thought.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

the image of the Good Life long ago stamped on her soul was quite different from this, and she suffered in contrast.