There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
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When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
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