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disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

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He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and endurances which would make the girl he loved forget the awkward hands and...more

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The woman had gone down on her knees and was shuffling slowly across the cruel ground towards the group of crosses: the dead baby rocked on her back. ...more

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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.