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I believe that we must not love life only for the pleasures that it brings us.

We ought to find satisfaction in sacrifice, in dedicating ourselves to others, and this satisfaction--I don't know just why, perhaps because it is new--appears to me superior to all other things." Julio looked at her in surprise, trying to imagine what was going on in that idolized and frivolous head.

What ideas were forming back of that thoughtful forehead which until then had merely reflected the slightest shadow of thoughts as swift and flitting as birds?
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