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When I was young and had no senseIn far-off MandalayI lost my heart to a Burmese girlAs lovely as the day.Her skin was gold, her hair was jet,her teet...more

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There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.

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And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

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I have not betrayed Julia.

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Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family s...more

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Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, "Don't do it to me, do it to s...more

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They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, a...more

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A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely without hope of getting a wife, a mistress, or any kind ...more

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does n...more

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At night all cats are grey.

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the...more