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Her lips were flesh like his, cherries dyed them as cherries dyed his. And if so with her lips, then was it so with all of her. She was woman, all woman, just like any woman… Then he realized the significance of it, and his heart began pounding and challenging him to play the lover with this woman who was not a spirit from other worlds but a mere woman with lips a cherry could stain… all his soul was singing.
— Mar 28, 2024 08:42PM
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"He had never taken root. He had fitted in sufficiently to satisfy his fellows but not to satisfy himself. He had been perturbed always by a feeling of unrest, had heard always the call of something from beyond, and had wandered on through life seeking it until he found books and art and love."
— Apr 03, 2024 05:39PM
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"She did not know the actual fire of love. Her knowledge of love was purely theoretical, and she conceived of it as lambent flame, gentle as the fall of dew or the ripple of quiet water, and cool as the velvet-dark of summer nights... She did not dream of the volcanic convulsions of love, its scorching heat and sterile wastes of parched ashes."
I didn't know Mr. London wrote of romance :D
— Mar 26, 2024 06:31PM
I didn't know Mr. London wrote of romance :D
