It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.
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Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
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