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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

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It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.
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Description Fall Light Object
Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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Experience Notice People Remark
As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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Erupt Explosion Myself Understand Wonderful World
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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Heaven Kissing Myself Teaching
We must discover security within ourselves.
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Discover Ourselves Security
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
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Compassionate Feeling Object Ourselves Strong Victim
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.
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Break Enough Seek Solitary Truth
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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Deep Life Meaning Symbol
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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Character Force Goodness Myself Revolution Thinking
And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?
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Fate Feeling Heart Myself Sensitive
All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.
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Disappoint Greatness Life Mom
Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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Astonish Gratitude Proud Touch
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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Alone Isolation Moments Woman
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.
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Growth History Man Sight
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
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Angel Flame Shadow Temptation
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
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Born Life Live Man Preparation

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

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