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“I know now that I must have glowed for them. I was a flower in a greenhouse, unsullied by the air that everyone else was forced to choke on. Worldliness has its price - cynicism - which I lacked, almost wholly.”

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Book:The Force of Such Beauty
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The Force of Such Beauty

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