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I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.

Arthur Symons
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It is in their eyes that their magic resides.

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Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.

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Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

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The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

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To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

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Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the…

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Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, pas…

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I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

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