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What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!


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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.



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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.



No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.



Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.



Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.



I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.



Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.






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There's periods now in our New York residence when I hear the door opening, especially the first couple of years... Anytime I hear that door opening I still think I'm gonna hear her.

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