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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

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Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the Fren...more

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Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

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There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you m...more

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There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighth...more

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It doesnot matter; there’s many a heavenly body in the lot crowding upon us ofa night that mankind had never heard of, it being outside the sphereof i...more

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This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

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Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accuracy, the harmony. And so fragile! And so strong! ...more

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All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual ...more

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And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and...more

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a tr...more

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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 its spectral throat?

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She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...

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I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no mat...more

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This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his ey...more