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Nineteenth Century
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But there is something else—there is God, and the love of beautiful things. I spent all day yesterday playing Bach's Passion music, and the hours passed like a dream until my sisters came in from walking and began to talk about marriage and men. It made me feel sick—it was horrible; and it is such things that make me hate life—and I do hate it; it is the way we are brought back to earth, and forced to realise how vile and degraded we are. Society seems to me no better than a pigsty; but in the b
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― A Drama In Muslin
― A Drama In Muslin
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Een wereldburger ben ik niet,
Hoe grootsch die naam moog schijnen;
De liefde, die mij God gebiedt,
Begin ik met de mijnen:
Ik knoop het eerst den broederband
In 't mij gegeven vaderland
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