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Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Two ideas were locked up in a slow dance, a mechanical menuet, with bows and curtseys: one was “We have so much to say”; the other was “We have absolutely nothing to say.” But that sort of thing can change in one instant.
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
IN ALL THE BOOKS that resulted from Byron’s challenge—Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and Ernestus Berchtold, the first victims are the innocents, those most loved by the protagonists. So it was in the lives of those who had received his challenge, as well as those around them.
The Monsters
Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler
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