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- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of…
- I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it…
- Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
- Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that…
- I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
- Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a…
- True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
- But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What shall I do…
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