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But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they…

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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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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead… — Helen Keller
I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October… — Jean Webster
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or… — Charles Kuralt
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted… — Charles Spurgeon
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. — Richard Lovelace
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living… — Margaret Atwood
PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make. — Ambrose Bierce
The grounds of the place were dominated by several large, old willow trees that towered over the surrounding stone wall and swayed… — Haruki Murakami
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return… — Teresa de la Parra

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