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“And so, if I always imagined the woman I loved in the setting I most longed at the time to visit, if I wished that it was her who showed it to me, who opened the gates of an unknown world, it was not by the mere hazard of a simple association of thoughts; no, it was because…..”
— Dec 17, 2022 10:41PM
“And so, if I always imagined the woman I loved in the setting I most longed at the time to visit, if I wished that it was her who showed it to me, who opened the gates of an unknown world, it was not by the mere hazard of a simple association of thoughts; no, it was because…..”
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Irresistible Desire to Kiss the Hand of the Lady in Pink.
“My heart beat loud while I repeated to myself "Shall I do it, shall I not?”and then I ceased to ask myself what I ought to do so as at least to do something. With a blind, insensate gesture, divested of all the reasons in its favour that I had thought of a moment before, I seized and raised to my lips the hand she held out to me.”
— Dec 12, 2022 10:15PM
“My heart beat loud while I repeated to myself "Shall I do it, shall I not?”and then I ceased to ask myself what I ought to do so as at least to do something. With a blind, insensate gesture, divested of all the reasons in its favour that I had thought of a moment before, I seized and raised to my lips the hand she held out to me.”

