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Karen Lindquist

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. 

A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

—Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

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