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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and…
• For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to…
• Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of…
• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to…
• It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams -…
• It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner.…
• Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a…
• The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In…
• For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained…
• Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
• It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
• In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

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