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“My facial muscles were so tensed from the strain that I actually felt it was impossible to smile. Whit a shock I realized that the faces of my squad mates and everyone around me looked mask like and unfamiliar.”

Book:With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

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“That's nice that she's so happy, I think. It's nice that anyone is capable of happiness, really. It's amazing that the human body can produce the neurochemicals required to feel joy. I am disappointed to have been served so little of those chemicals- but I am glad nonetheless that this old woman has enough dopamine, and oxytocin, and whatever else she needs to sustain that smile - despite the fact that her husband is dead, her teeth are probably fake, and all human life is fundamentally inconsequential.”

Life Happiness Smile

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Source: Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

“Jolene smiled and in her smile was tomorrow, three months from now, and an infinity swimming in a lake by a summer house.”

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Source: Your Driver Is Waiting

“His grin broadens, that charming smile, with which he could coax ducks to bring their own eggs to him for his breakfast. With which he could make delicate negotiations over a prisoner seem like nothing more than a game.”

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Book:The Stolen Heir

Source: The Stolen Heir

“On the likeness of the moon, I point to the sun, and the fool looks at my shoe.”

Philosophy Wisdom Irony Foolishnessshness Ignoranceorance Illusionsion

Author:Haidar Aljabiry

“He gives me a smile, a strange light in his eyes. 'If we were capable of putting mistrust aside, we might be a formidable pair.”

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Book:The Stolen Heir

Source: The Stolen Heir

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