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    He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

    Love | Passion | Sight


    Self-love seems so often unrequited.

    Seems | Unrequited


    Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

    Parents | Early | Promise


    People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

    Cannot | Biography | Reverse


    Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

    Parents | Early | Promise


    Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

    Portrait | Process | Inferior


    Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

    Growing | Crime | Committed


    Books do furnish a room.

    Room | Books | Furnish


       

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