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Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?


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I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.



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Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.



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As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.



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One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.



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O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?



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In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.



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In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.



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This page presents the quote "Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?". Author of this quote is Juana Inés de la Cruz. This quote is about pleasure, forever, sight, flight, night, slavery,.