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But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare - a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute - was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart - the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.
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russian-literature
romances
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Leo Tolstoy |
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The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.
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life
houses
masterpieces
personalities
romances
clothes
cities
pretend
wars
rooms
machines
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Alan Moore |
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The sun light up a drop of dew The drop of dew soon dries You are the light of my eyes, my eyes I'm brought to life by you ...
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romances
recipes
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Laura Esquivel |
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Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
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lovers
dreams
love
dalliances
foibles
romances
regrets
memory
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Iris Murdoch |