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And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her a...more

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Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

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He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable regr...more

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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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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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He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it. He could never surmount his immeasurable re...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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He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.

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What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.

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Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you s...more

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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

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Yet magic is no more the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that ev...more

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Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

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When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will sat...more

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I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really...more