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It was the beginning of June; summer was arising out of spring, like an aloe from a field of grass.

— Gabriele D'Annunzio

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It is not necessary to live,
But to carve our names beyond that point,
This is necessary.

He wanted to possess not the body but the soul of that woman; and to possess her entire soul, with all her tenderness, all her joys, all her fears, all her anguish, all her dreams, in other words, the entire lief of her soul; and to be able to say: I am the life of her life.

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