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> # It spurred me to such action as I took, - but it has robbed me of sugared eloquence, it has left me chary of speech. It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence.

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## More from James Branch Cabell

1. > At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?

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2. > Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, - and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

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3. > Always the fact remains that to the mentally indolent this book may well seem a volume of disconnected short stories. All of us being more or less mentally ind…

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