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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!

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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of ...more

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The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

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But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were...more

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I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at l...more

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From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes...more