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There are women whose love only ends with death.Georges Rodenbach
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Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...Georges Rodenbach
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As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave … overtook him with unwanted intensity.Georges Rodenbach
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The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.Georges Rodenbach
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The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.Georges Rodenbach
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...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!Georges Rodenbach
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Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband and wife, who love each other, can see each other in one single face.Georges Rodenbach