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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

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Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

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How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even...more

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything aro...more

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They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything aro...more

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Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge in...more

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He is on his way to her. In a moment he will leave the wooden sidewalks and vacant lots for the paved streets. The small suburban houses flash by like...more