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The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make them romantic, not the other way around?___arling, what do you mean?___here wasn__ a person there who enjoyed it,_ she said, her voice lifeless, __r who thought or felt anything at all. They moved about, and they said the same dull things they say anywhere. I suppose they thought the lights would make it brilliant.___arling, you take everything too seriously. One is not supposed to be intellectual at a ball. One is simply supposed to be gay.___ow? By being stupid?
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
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The things you were talking about. The lights and the flowers. Do they expect those things to make them romantic, not the other way around?___arling, what do you mean?___here wasn__ a person there who enjoyed it,_ she said, her voice lifeless, __r who thought or felt anything at all. They moved about, and they said the same dull things they say anywhere. I suppose they thought the lights would make it brilliant.___arling, you take everything too seriously. One is not supposed to be intellectual at a ball. One is simply supposed to be gay.___ow? By being stupid?

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