There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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“Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent…”

“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or thr…”

“And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it h…”