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      "text": "\"A little cinder in the wind, Pablo - that's what you are.\"\n\n\"Everybody's worth something,\" Pablo said. \"I mean - everybody's life got some meaning to it. You know - there's a reason for people.\"\n\n\"No kidding? A reason for you? What is it?\"\n\n\"I don't know,\" Pablo confessed. \"I ain't found out yet. But I know there is one.\"",
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      "text": "\"Are we friends today?\" she asked him.\n\n\"There's a level, Justin, on which we're always friends. Then there's a level on which we can't be.\"",
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      "text": "\"The thing to do with embarrassment,\" he told the young American couple who seemed determined to engage him, \"is work it all the way to humiliation.\"",
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      "text": "With the thought came the recollection of a poem he had once heard read, about a mouse so frightened it went to the cat for love.",
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      "text": "\"We're at a very primitive stage of mankind,\" Nolan declared, \"that's what people don't understand. Just pick up the Times on any given day and you've got a catalogue of ape behaviour. Strip away the slogans and excuses and verbiage, the so-called ideology, and you're reading about what one pack of chimpanzees did to another.\"",
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      "text": "\"What I wonder,\" Bob Cole said in his strange tremulous voice, \"is whether the people down here have to live this way so that we can live the way we do. We have to believe it's no, don't we? We couldn't face up to it otherwise. Because if most of the world lives in this kind of poverty so that we can have our goodies and our extra protein ration - what does that make us?\"",
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      "text": "In all the working systems, she thought, the weakness was always yourself - that spot of gristle in the gears. It applied on every level - even the act of getting through a day could be performed with gusto and dispatch if you kept out of your own way. Justin believed that she knew as much as anyone about self-struggle.",
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      "text": "It's what you want, he told himself. Don't obsess over it. Do it.",
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