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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.
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Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
Jeffrey Eugenides