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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute m...more

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This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in whic...more

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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one el...more

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The fault I find with our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other every day, whereas only three or four ...more

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I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs,...more

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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycon...more

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Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

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A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

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All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from...more

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There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.

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... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

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My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could pla...more

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It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their gene...more