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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?

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With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger ...more

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There Albine lay, panting, exhausted by love, her hands clutched closer and closer to her heart, breathing her last. She parted her lips, seeking the ...more

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All of a sudden, in the good-natured child, the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates ...more

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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in any case, they were partly to blame. W...more

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Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep peaceful passion of a noble sou...more