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He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites ...more

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In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty is only a vein sticking up for appearances as th...more

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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

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Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and mad...more

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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All a man can betray is his conscience.

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How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?

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How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever bee...more

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

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He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?

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I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming sc...more

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We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, of an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taki...more

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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devo...more

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I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humblesurroundings, rich in gene...more