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You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...more

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. ...more

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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things

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Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think th...more

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How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.

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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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Utterly, irrevocably, lost

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.