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  "text": "But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.",
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      "text": "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.\"",
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      "text": "\"I wouldn’t ask too much of her,\" I ventured. \"You can’t repeat the past.\"\n\n\"Can’t repeat the past?\" he cried incredulously. \"Why of course you can!\"\n\nHe looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.\n\n\"I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,\" he said, nodding determinedly. \"She’ll see.\"",
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      "text": "It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.",
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