Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.
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Zum Autor"The flowers which played then among the grass, the water which rippled past in the sunshine, the whole landscape which served as environment to their apparition lingers around the memory of them still with its unconscious or unheeding air;..."
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"All our final resolutions are made in a state of mind which is not going to last."
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"Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere."
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