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I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for the past love which can never return. Who is to blame, I do not kno...more

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

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Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of a woman whom we may call B, who is young and happy and...more

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Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important pe...more

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it possible that man's heart ca...more

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But the princess had never seen the beautiful expression of her eyes; the expression that came into them when she was not thinking of herself. As is t...more

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The old oak, utterly transformed, draped in a tent of sappy dark green, basked faintly, undulating in the rays of the evening sun. Of the knotted fing...more

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Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and we...more

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Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, t...more

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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

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I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets ...more