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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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