Aphra Behn (1640-1689), The Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister, pt. I., 1st letter to Sylvia:
I have lived a whole Day
and yet no Letter from Sylvia.
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The Country Of My Choice
Henri-Frédéric Amiel, The Journal Intime , tr. Mrs Humphry Ward, May 2, 1877: Which nation is best worth belonging to? There is not one in w...
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Henry David Thoreau, Journal , March 31, 1852 (emphasis mine): Why the moaning of the storm gives me pleasure. Methinks it is be cause it pu...
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Carl C. Jung, “The Love Problem of a Student,” in Civilization in Transition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978, vol. 10 of the C...
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William Rounseville Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life (Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1867), 122-24, 1...