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He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

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Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful se...more

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I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

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Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be ...more