I´d say A. Others don´t make much sense in the context.
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I think Miles's wife left him because she thought he had sold his soul to the devil, as stated on page 39. Life would be meaningless if others knew about the spring. Everything would just stop. Children would be children forever, the old and frail would be so forever, send everything would overpopulate.
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this quote means that you shouldn't let everyone else control your thoughts and imagination.
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