“But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.”
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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 emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
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