What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are.
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
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