"As we do," the blind girl answered softly.
Their figures against the setting sun took on a strange burnished
radiance, so that they seemed as mystical pilgrims journeying into that
golden haze, which veiled them in beyond the hill, as the Angelus sounded
from the tower of the ancient church.
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Vanity is the bane of mankind
You cannot live long enough to atone for that impertinence
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Conquest not important enough to satisfy ambition
Face flushed with a sort of pleasurable defiance
Her sight was bounded by the little field where she strayed
I was never good at catechism
The blind tyranny of the just
Touch of the fantastic, of the barbaric, in all genius
Vanity is the bane of mankind
Visions of the artistic temperament--delight and curse
We are only children till we begin to make our dreams our life
You cannot live long enough to atone for that impertinence
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