Hagar Revelly

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M. Kennerley, 1913 - Broken homes - 428 pages
 

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Page 68 - This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself.
Page 411 - Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Page 68 - ... thy most solitary solitude, and said to thee: ' This life, as thou livest it now, and hast lived it, thou shalt have to live over again, and not once but innumerable times ; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every pleasure and every thought and sigh, and everything in thy life, the great and the unspeakably petty alike, must come again to thee, and all in the same series and succession; this spider, too, and this moonlight betwixt the trees and this moment likewise and I...
Page 386 - I do want you to know ... that it is the most important thing that has ever happened to me and I am very happy.
Page 297 - twere to suppress it. My wounds are gaping — ebbing is my blood. Wide gape the wounds — the vacant post's bespoken ! One falls, another fills his place and part. But I have fallen unvanquished — sword unbroken — The only thing that's broken is my heart.
Page 108 - Je veux un tresor qui les contient tous. Je veux la Jeunesse — ' " Then he quoted in English, " I desire a treasure that contains them all, I desire youth.
Page 231 - He turned her face so that he could look into her eyes. " Now tell me what's up," he demanded, though his voice was no less kind.
Page 169 - I don't want to frighten you. I just want to love you. I just want you to love me.
Page 133 - Greenfield and his kindness to her. She was still sitting on the edge of the bed, thinking in a peaceful kind of reverie, when she heard a knock on the door. It came so suddenly, she was a good deal frightened. "Who's there?
Page 338 - I pushed the thing away from me, and made up my mind that I was going to be a little meaner with you.

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