In pain a new time is born.
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSOWhen I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
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I will give you three days to seek your shadow.
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went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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They would only drive him to even greater despair.
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Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port.
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What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters?
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I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage,
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All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
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Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
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In pain is a new time born.
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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
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On recovering my senses
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Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
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