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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

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The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have traversed interminable leagues of frozen silence, filling them with the same cold roar and sharpening its edge against the same bitter black-and-white landscape.

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