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There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the…

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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon,…
Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense…
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to…
Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am…
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their…
Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is…
I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn…
You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may…
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all…

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