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1[[AC:Quotes from ''A Separate Peace'':]]
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3->''Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.''
4-->'''Gene Forrester''' on his time attending the Devon School
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6->''So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all--''[[GratuitousFrench plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.]]'' Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.''
7-->'''Gene Forrester'''
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9->''The war would be deadly all right. But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved. And if it wasn't there, as for example with Phineas, then I put it there myself.''
10-->'''Gene Forrester'''
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12->''...all the people [at the Devon School] were intensely real, wildly alive and totally meaningful, and I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.''
13-->'''Gene Forrester'''
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15->''What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.''

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