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“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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While three men hold together, the kingdoms are less by three.

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There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

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Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

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