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  "text": "These unhappy agents found what had already been found in abundance on Earth—a nightmare of meaningless without end. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.\n\nOutwardness lost, at last, its imagined attractions.\n\nOnly inwardness remained to be explored.\n\nOnly the human soul remained terra incognita.\n\nThis was the beginning of goodness and wisdom.",
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      "text": "\"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody,\" she said, \"would be to not be used for anything by anybody.\" ... \"Thank you for using me,\" she said to Constant, \"even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.\"",
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      "text": "Son—they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose.",
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