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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

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It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

Broken, Days, Leaving, Life, Passing By, Unfulfilled
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Goodbye -- Because I love you.

Goodbye, Love, Love You

Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

Caution, Exercise, Mexican, Race, Sold, Wife

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Breath, Felt, Sound, Unaccustomed, Voice, Wine

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

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…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

Believe, Face, Love, Men, Persistence, Powerful
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