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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart.
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
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He is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.
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Love becomes the deposit of the heart, analogous in all degrees to the 'findings' in a tomb. As in one will be charted the taken place of the body, the raiment, the utensils necessary to its other life, so in the heart of the lover will be traced, as an indelible shadow, that which he loves.
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To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton
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Born:
June 12, 1892
Died:
June 18, 1982
(aged 90)
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