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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange e...more

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It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose deare...more

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What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gild...more