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- I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with…
- I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and…
- The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a…
- In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion for theological discussion…
- When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
- It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is…
- There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne…
- There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne…
- There is something about Safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows
- Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our…
- All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.
- Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.
- It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for…
- Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I…
- Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?" Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall…
- But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.
- All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
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