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I hate you. I wish you was dead."Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start. She had nothing to say. She sat down...more

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He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to look at her. It gave him ...more

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The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.

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He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with ...more

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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's h...more

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Philip thought that in throwing over the desire for happiness he was casting aside the last of his illusions. His life had seemed horrible when it was...more

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Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.

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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ...more

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Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that rive...more

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How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at e...more

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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