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“…it is the very look that used to shine in Eves. To think that so subtle and intangible a thing as a look could flit and flash from face to face down a procession three-hundred thousand years long and remain the same, without shade of change! Yet here it is, lighting this young creature's face just as it lighted Eve's in the long ago- the newest thing I have seen in the earth, and the oldest.”

“At first I couldn't make out what I was made for. But now I think it was to search out the secrets of this wonderful world and be happy and thank the giver of it all for devising it. I think there are many things to learn yet—I hope so; and by economizing and not hurrying too fast, I think they will last weeks and weeks. I hope so.”

“Yes, I think I love him merely because he is mine and is masculine. There is no other reason, I suppose. And so I think it is as I first said: that this kind of love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes - none knows whence - and cannot explain itself. And it doesn’t need to.
It is what I think. But I am only a girl and the first that examined this matter…”

“If I ask myself why I love him, I find I do not know and do not really much care to know; so I suppose that this kind of love is not a product of reasoning and statistics, like one's love for other reptiles and animals. I think that this must be so.”

“He would ask what it was good for, and what could I answer? For it was not good for something, but only beautiful, merely beautiful...”

Art for art’s sake…

[talking about Adam] “Hasn't it any heart? Hasn't it any compassion for those little creatures? Can it be that it was designed and manufactured for such ungentle work? It has the look of it.”

“I love to talk. I talk all day and in my sleep, too, and I am very interesting. But if I had another to talk to, I could be twice as interesting and would never stop, if desired.”

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."