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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and ...more

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I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it...more

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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

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She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

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I do not love men: I love what devours them.

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Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws o...more

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I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings of a thousand lost sensations. The fact that...more

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But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happines...more