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Excerpt from The Way Things Happen
She awoke very often to gentle regret. Gentle, though the word must predominate in description of her, cannot dismiss her feeling may, indeed, readily give a false impression of its nature. Understand one thing about a human being, and you have a clue of entry into that being's mind (a maltreated part of many an organism), which to follow delicately and sel?essly is to widen one's prospect of life, quite without exaggeration, twofold.
And what from swine to swallows, from mud to the stars, may life be or not be? It is a mystery always. There is mystery about the life of an oak, which has quietly grown in the same place, keeping its secret and its changing beauty, for many hundreds of years. And man - with his spirit and mind and body, with his power of speech and laughter and thought and'
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