When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters.
I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist_ he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love_ poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.
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I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist_ he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love_ poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.
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