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«Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.»
«No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.»
«I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.»
«I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.»
«I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.»
«No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence»
«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
«Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.»
«Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.»
«People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived'.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.»

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