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God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

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By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

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Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

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He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

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Sadness is a vice.

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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the r...more

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Contact with the world, with which I have been steadily rubbing shoulders now for fourteen months, makes me feel more and more like returning to my sh...more

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At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude o...more

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At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to som...more

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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became dr...more

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At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange shapes: sometimes they were arms rising heavenwar...more