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— Gertrude Stein"Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is."
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Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.
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