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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

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I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reapi...more

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To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

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Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

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And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever ...more

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There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand de...more