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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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I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstance...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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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