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Toda mi vida ha sido una espera del inevitable encuentro contigo
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Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
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Her presence seared me like a flame... but what did I care what kind of fire this was in which I burned and melted, when it was bliss to burn and melt?
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That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
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You are an old pig!'one of them said to the other. 'And that is worse than being a young one.
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What's the point of talking and thinking about the future which for the most part doesn't depend on us? If the opportunity arises to do something-great, and if it doesn't at least you'll be glad you didn't chatter about it beforehand.
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it’s fun talking to you… like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one’s nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere.
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While she was exchanging the simplest sentences with him, even while she was jesting with him, she was conscious of a faint spasm of dread. So people on a steamer at sea talk and laugh carelessly, for all the world as though they were on dry land; but let only the slightest hitch occur, let the least sign be seen of anything out of the common, and at once on every face there comes out an expression of peculiar alarm, betraying the constant consciousness of constant danger.
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Many things interested her and nothing satisfied her entirely.
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