It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

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And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

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My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

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I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

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Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

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My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

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The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.

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My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

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The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

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