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"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."
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"He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."
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"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."
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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"
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"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."
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"A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives."
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"She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!"
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"My love, do you recall the object which we saw,That fair, sweet, summer morn!At a turn in the path a foul carcassOn a gravel strewn bed,Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman,Burning and dripping with poisons,Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant wayIts belly, swollen with gases."
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"I don't want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, soinfluential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distantmemory."
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"Man is a problem-creating animal."
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"I love that you're worried,' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things."
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"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."
Time
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
Society
"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
Knowledge
"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
Being
"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
Love
"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."
Will
"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."
Character
"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."
Performance
"The little man is still a man."
Man
"I call architecture frozen music."
Architecture
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