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krupatato
3 февраля 2025
What is jealousy? Jealousy is to say, what you have got is mine, it is mine, it is mine? Not quite. It is to say, I hate you because you have got what I have not got and desire. I want to be me, myself, but in your position, with your opportunities, your fascination, your looks, your abilities, your spiritual good.
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krupatato
3 февраля 2025
Jealousy is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no-one any pleasure. It is a miserable emotion for the jealous one with equally miserable effects on others.
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Fireblood
14 февраля 2016
Wintertime nighs;
But my bereavement-pain
It cannot bring again:
Twice no one dies.
Flower-petals flee;
But since it once hath been,
No more that severing scene
Can harrow me.
Birds faint in dread:
I shall not lose old strength
In the lone frost's black length:
Strength long since fled!
Leaves freeze to dun;
But friends cannot turn cold
This season as of old
For him with none.
Tempests may scath;
But love cannot make smart
Again this year his heart
Who no heart hath.
Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One, who past doubtings all,
Waits in unhope.
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Fireblood
14 февраля 2016
'I'm going to denounce you to the police for attempted murder.'
'And how will you explain my presence in Rowland's bathroom?'
'How will I explain...?'
'Oh, yes. I'm a minor. Do you want Rowland to keep on the school? Better not get him a bad name.'
'Rowland's foot was burnt by the fire,' she said.
'Then he can't dance'
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