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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and he...more

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...more

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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until dea...more

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He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have t...more

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Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through wh...more