Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
("Mrs. Dalloway")
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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth deforms the mind fetters the will.
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It flattered her, where she was most susceptible of flattery, to think how, wound about in their hearts, however long they lived she would be woven...
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O amor torna a gente solitßria, pensou.
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The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be, and deserves fuller investigation.
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