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She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which ...more

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It was at times like this that one of those waves of bestiality ran through the mine, the sudden lust of the male that came over a miner when he met o...more

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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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As if one killed by calculation! A person kills only from an impulse that springs from his blood and sinews, from the vestiges of ancient struggles, f...more

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This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches...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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When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

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His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his t...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