Ends Quote by Arthur Symons

“And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!”

Arthur Symons

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A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

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My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a…

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The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

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Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

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I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores…

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God, like all highest things, Hides light in shade, And in the night his visitings To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

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Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

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The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

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I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

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