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dream book writing
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
wedding flower wife
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
suicide terrible
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
funny-love first-love love-is
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
literature virtuous-woman virtuous
The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.
bad-ass events architecture
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
inspirational facts impossible
The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred
strong creative secret
Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.
passion dumb deaf
Passion is born deaf and dumb.
laughter joining-in joining
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
exaggeration-is literature bad-grades
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
pain shadow world
For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?
paris gondolas doe
Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]