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25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! run over us, if you like; we shall not budge! Work is a sin; all occupation is evil!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The inferior parts of the body, having been made by the Devil, belong to him. Let us eat, drink, and enjoy!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! imposters, brigands, simoniacs, heretics, and demons! the vermin of the schools! the dregs of Hell! This fellow here, Marcion, is a sailor from Sinope excommunicated for incest. Carpocras has been banished as a magician; Ætius has stolen his concubine; Nicolas prostituted hi... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was in the lowest chamber of the baths, and I was lulled to sleep by the confused murmurs that reached me from the streets. All at once I heard loud exclamations. The people cried, 'It is a magician! it is the Devil!' And the crowd stopped in front of our house opposite to the... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While addressing us by name, he reproached us for the vanity of our actions, the impurity of our bodies; and he raised his fist towards the dromedaries on account of the silver bells which they wore under their jaws. His fury filled my very entrails with terror; nevertheless, it... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! how you cry out with anguish when the thongs flagellate you! How your aching limbs offer themselves to my burning caresses! How you languish upon my breast with an inconceivable love! It is so strong that it has revealed new worlds to you, and you can now behold spirits with... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do like Origen and like us! Is it the pain you fear, coward? Is it the love of your flesh that restrains you, hypocrite?"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cain begot the race of the strong; Sodom terrified the earth with its chastisement, and it is through Judas that God saved the world! Yes, Judas! without him no death and no Redemption!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As for us--the Saints--in order to hasten the end of the world, we poison, burn, massacre. The only salvation is in martyrdom. We give ourselves up to martyrdom. We take off with pincers the skin of our heads; we spread our limbs under the ploughs; we cast ourselves into the mou... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A thousand times no! the Son is not co-eternal with the Father, nor of the same substance. Otherwise He would not have said, 'Father, remove from Me this chalice! Why do ye call Me good? God alone is good! I go to my God, to your God!' and other expressions, proving that He was ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His soul was the soul of Esau. He suffered from the disease of Bellerophon; and his mother, the woman who sold perfumes, surrendered herself to Pantherus, a Roman soldier, under the corn-sheaves, one harvest evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doctors, magicians,... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have known, we ourselves have known, the carpenter's son. We were of his own age; we lived in his street. He used to amuse himself by modelling little birds with mud; without being afraid of cutting the benches, he assisted his father in his work, or rolled up, for his mother... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have kept only his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you wish it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He reappears himself when we invoke him. It is the hour. Come!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lord is about to come,"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They believe, the fools, that we adore Knouphis!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upon the darkness the ray of the Word descended, and a violent cry burst forth, which seemed like the voice of light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kyrie eleison!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he lay on the mud, hideous, feeble, shapeless, without... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come! come! come! come forth from thy cavern!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come! come! come! come forth from thy cavern!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what is the matter with him?"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Writhing on the bar of the Cross, and higher than his head, slavering above the crown of thorns, thou didst behold him dying; for thou art Jesus! yes, thou art the Word! thou art the Christ!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to succour me! Communities sometimes make arrangements by which they might be left in peace. Many amongst you have even obtained letters falsely declaring that you have offered sacrifice to idols."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it not Peter of Alexandria... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My only chance was to fly to the mountains!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The soldiers would have caught you,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh! I could have done like Cyprian; I should have come back; and the second time I should have had more strengt... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How scandalous! What? You a victim of election? Think of all these women who are looking at you! And then, God sometimes performs a miracle. Pionius benumbed the hands of his executioners; and the blood of Polycarp extinguished the flames of his funeral-pile."
},
{
"from... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What would ye say--what would any of you say--if they burned you with plates of iron; if horses tore you asunder; if your body, coated with honey, was devoured by insects? You will have only the death of a hunter who is surprised in a wood."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep back! Keep back! The Spirit of Montanus will destroy ye!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Damnation to the Montanist!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the beasts! To the beasts!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! how pleasant is the air of the chilly night in the midst of sepulchres! I am so fatigued with the softness of couches, the noise of day, and the oppressiveness of the sun!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! at last, here I am! But how irksome to have wedded an id... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have pity on her soul, O my God! She is languishing in the abode of shadows. Deign to admit her into the Resurrection, so that she may rejoice in Thy light!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be at rest--suffer no more! I have brought thee wine and meat!"
},
{
"f... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brahmin of the banks of the Nile, what sayest thou?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Like a rhinoceros, I am plunged in solitude. I dwelt in the tree that was behind me."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My frightful austerities have made me superior to the Powers. A contraction of my brain can kill a hundred kings' sons, dethrone gods, overrun the world."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everything that is born will perish; everything that is dead will come to life again. The beings that have actually disappeared will sojourn in wombs not yet formed, and will come back to earth to serve with sorrow other creatures. But, as I have resolved through an infinite num... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is towards God they pretend to direct their thoughts in all these different ways. What right have I to curse them, I who stumble in my own path? When they have disappeared, I shall, perhaps, learn more. This one rushed away too quickly; I had not time to reply to him. Just no... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a young girl, a poor child, whom I take everywhere with me."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sometimes she remains thus a long time without speaking or eating, and utters marvellous things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Really?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eunoia! Eunoia! relate what you have to say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pleasant was the upper chamber of his palace! He would lie down upon the ivory bed, and, smoothing my hair, would sing in an amorous strain. At the end of the day, I could see the two camps and the lanterns which they were lighting; Ulysses at the edge of his tent; Achilles,... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amongst the Romans I flew so high in the circus that they saw me no more. Nero ordered me to be decapitated; but it was a sheep's head that fell to the ground instead of mine. Finally, they buried me alive; but I came back to life on the third day. The proof of it is that I am h... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where am I? ... I am afraid of falling into the abyss. And the cross, no doubt, is too far away from me. Ah! what a night! what a night!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do ye seek? Speak! Go on!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "La, la! ... worthy hermit! what do you say? I know nothing about it. Here is the Master!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ye come in this fashion? ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I dwelt in the Temple of Heliopolis, I used often to contemplate all the objects on the walls: vultures carrying sceptres, crocodiles playing on lyres, men's faces joined to serpents' bodies, women with cows' heads prostrated before the ithyphallic deities; and their supern... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a brute one must be to adore a thing like that!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh! yes; very much of a brute!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ba! ba! ba!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Horror!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the gods always demand sufferings. Your own, even, has wished--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Say no more--hold your tongue!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As he wants rain, he tries, by his strains, to coerce the King of Heaven to open the fruitful cloud."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is too silly a form of presumption!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, then, do you perform exorcisms?"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the primordial duality of the Brahmans--the absolute not expressing itself by any form."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold! what an invention!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father, Son and Holy Ghost, in the same way make only one person!"
}... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a number of them there are! What do they wish?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The one who is scratching his abdomen with his elephant's trunk is the solar god, the inspirer of wisdom. That other, whose six heads carry towers and fourteen handles of javelins, is ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the master of the great charity, the help of creatures, and I expound the law to believers and to the profane alike. To save the world I wished to be born amongst men; the gods wept when I went away. At first, I sought a woman suitable for the purpose--of warlike race, the ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His sons came--hideous, covered with scales, nauseous as charcoal, howling, hissing, bellowing, flinging at each other armour and dead men's bones. Some of them spirted out flames through their nostrils; others spread around darkness with their wings; others carried chaplets of ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have just seen the creed of many hundreds of millions of men!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over the whole of those beings Omoroca, bent like a hoop, stretched her woman's body. But Belus cut her clean in two halves, made the earth with one, and the heavens with another; and the two worlds alike mutually contemplate each other. I, the first consciousness of chaos, I ha... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of the seven planets, two are benevolent, two malevolent, and three ambiguous; everything in the world depends on these eternal fires. According to their position and their movements, one may draw prognostications, and you are now treading on the most sacred spot on earth. There... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those are the virgins of Babylon who prostitute themselves to the goddess."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What goddess?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There she is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Infamy! What an abomination to give a sex to ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! I am dying! Ahriman, thou art the master!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is my temple? Where are my amazons? How is it with me--me, the incorruptible--that I find myself so impotent?"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pleasant is this odour of palm-trees, this rustling of green leaves, this transparency of fountains! I would like to lie down flat upon the ground, in order to feel it close to my heart, and my life would be renewed in eternal youth!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is the Bona Dea, the divinity of the mountains, the great mother of Syria! Draw hither, honest people! She procures joy, heals the sick, bestows fortunes, and satisfies lovers. It is we who bring her out to walk in the country in fine weather and bad weather. We often sleep... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She loves the sounds of dulcimers, the stamping of feet, the howling of wolves, the echoing mountains and the deep gorges, the flower of the almond-tree, the pomegranate and the green figs, the whirling dance, the high-sounding flute, the sweet sap, the salt tear,--blood! Help! ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is sad: let us be sad! He who is doomed to suffer must weep! In that way your sins will be remitted. Blood washes out everything: shed drops of it around, then, like flowers. She demands that of another--of one who is pure!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't sl... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To rejoin thee I have travelled through every region--and famine ravaged the fields. Thou hast deceived me! No matter,--I love thee! Warm my body! Let us unite!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The spring-time will return no more, O eternal Mother! Despite my love, it ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us press close to his hips! let us kiss his breast! Hold! hold! feel thou our fingers covered with rings which are stealing over thy body, and our lips which are seeking thy mouth, and our hair which is sweeping thy legs, insensible god, deaf to our prayers!"
},
{
"f... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Persephone, all that is beautiful goes down to thee and returns no more!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have sought for him through all the water-courses and all the lakes, and, farther still, in the Ph[oe]nician Byblos. Anubis, with ears erect, jumped round me, barking, and with his nose scenting out the clumps of tamarind. Thanks, good Cynocephalus, thanks!"
},
{
"from... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meanwhile, Osiris sometimes came back to see me. His shade made me the mother of Harpocrates."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Egypt! Egypt! Thy great immovable gods have their shoulders whitened by the dung of birds, and the wind, as it passes along the desert, carries with it the ashes of the dead!--Anubis, protector of shadows, do not leave me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But what aile... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it now that makes you sad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am thinking of all the souls lost through these false gods!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you not find that they have--in some respects--resemblances to the true?"
},
{
"fro... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! my bosom dilates. A joy, which I cannot analyse, descends into the depths of my soul. How beautiful it is! how beautiful it is!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They used to immolate victims with flowers around their fingers. Memory was not even troubled by the decay of the dead, for there remained of them only a handful of ashes. The soul, mingled with the boundless ether, ascended to the gods!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We knew it, we of all others! The gods were doomed to die. Uranus was mutilated by Saturn, and Saturn by Jupiter. He will be himself annihilated. Each in its turn. It is destiny!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I no longer desire those of men! Let the earth guard them, and let them be moved on a level with its baseness. They now have hearts of slaves; they forget injuries, ancestors, oaths; and everywhere the folly of mobs, the mediocrity of the individual, and the hideousness of races... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But a difficulty faces me--me, the ingenious one! What! what! not a single idea! Here am I more terrified than a woman."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have vanquished the Cercopes, the Amazons, and the Centaurs. I have slain many kings, I have broken the horn of Achelous, a great river. I have cut through mountains; I have brought oceans together. I have liberated enslaved nations; I have peopled uninhabited countries. I hav... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou didst leave the gate ajar. Others have come. The light of human day has penetrated Tartarus!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will not survive it! Let the vast ocean cover me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The freedom of great woods intoxicated me with its odour of deer and exhalations of swamps. The women, over whose pregnancy I watched, bring dead children into the world. The moon trem... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they returned, those barbarians! and in tens of thousands, nay, in millions! Since numbers, war-engines, and strategy are more powerful, it is better to make an end of it, like a brave man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world is getting cold. It is necessary... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By a stronger concentration, I will have sublime poems, eternal monuments; and all matter will be penetrated with the vibrations of my cithara."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! enough of forms! Farther still--to the very summit--to the world of pure thought!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I covered with my girdle the entire horizon of Hellas. Its fields shone with the roses of my cheeks; its shores were cut according to the form of my lips; and its mountains, whiter than my doves, palpitated under the hands of the sculptors. My spirit showed itself in the order o... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many times already, while you were speaking, you appeared to me to be growing tall; and it was not an illusion. How is this? Explain it to me. Your appearance appals me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is this now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Loo... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They mourn for the meadows where, upon hillocks of grass, they used to recover breath in the battle, the long ships whose prows cut through the mountains of ice, and the skates they used in order to follow the orbit of the poles while carrying on the extremities of their arms th... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nortia is contemplating the wall into which she drove nails to mark the number of the years. Its surface is covered and its last period accomplished. Like two travellers driven about by a tempest, Kastur and Polutuk take shelter under the same mantle."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pardon! They weary me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Formerly they used to be entertaining!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The patrician ladies of Mark Antony's time preferred Libitina."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They protected all the wretched people who dragged the fetters with their legs over the pebbles of the Sabina, those who called the hogs with the sound of the trumpet, those who gathered the grapes on the tops of the elm-trees, those who drove through the by-roads the asses lade... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But she will not come! and they dismiss the others--Nona and Decima, the nurses; the three Nixii, who are to deliver her; the two wet-nurses, Educa and Potina; and Carna, the cradle-rocker, whose bunch of hawthorns drives away bad dreams from the infant. Later, Ossipago will hav... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the ancestors in painted wax, shut up behind us, became gradually covered with mouldiness. The new races, to punish us for their own deceptions, have broken our jaws; and under the rats' teeth our bodies of wood have crumbled away."
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They have strangled the priests with the cords of their vestments. The women are captives; the sacred vessels are all melted down!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was the God of armies, the Lord, the Lord God!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are al... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beneath me, the thunderbolt darts forth, the horizon widens, rivers cross one another. That light spot is the desert; that pool of water the ocean. And other oceans appear--immense regions of which I had no knowledge. There are black lands that smoke like live embers, a belt of ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, then, it is not the centre of the world? Pride of man, humble thyself!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can scarcely distinguish it now. It is intermingled with the other fires. The firmament is but a tissue of stars."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the object of all this?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could God have had an object? What experience could have enlightened Him, what reflection enabled Him to judge? Before the beginning of things, it would not have operated, and now it would be useless.... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look at the sun! From its borders escape great flames emitting sparks which scatter themselves to become new worlds; and, further than the last, beyond those depths where only night is visible, other suns whirl round, and behind these others again, and others still, to infinity ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If substance could be divided, it would lose its nature--it would not be itself; God would no longer exist. He is, therefore, indivisible as well as infinite, and if He had a body, He would be made up of parts. He would no longer be one; He would no longer be infinite. Therefore... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But good and evil only concern you--like day and night, pleasure and pain, death and birth, which have relationship merely to a corner of space, to a special medium, to a particular interest. Inasmuch as what is infinite alone is permanent, the Infinite exists; and that is all!"... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But are you sure that you see? Are you sure that you live? Perhaps nothing at all exists!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, adore me! and curse the phantom that you call God!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is this the brightness of dawn? or is it the reflection of the moon?"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I imagined that I could unite myself to God!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She was going to curse me for abandoning her, tearing her white locks. And her corpse remained stretched in the middle of the cell, beneath the roof of reeds, between the tottering walls. Through a hole, a hyena, sniffing, thrusts forward his jaws! ... Horror! horror!"
},
{
... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come forward, she says;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am afraid of committing a sin!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But King Saul was slain! Razias, a just man, was slain! Saint Pelagius of Antioch was slain! Dominius of Aleppo and his two daughters,... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, then, and enjoy yourself. Solomon recommends pleasure. Go where your heart leads you, and according to the desire of your eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To find what pleasure? My heart is sick; my eyes are dim!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come! I am consolation, rest, oblivion, eternal peace!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am the soother, the joy, the life, the happiness inexhaustible!"
}
] |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This moment, or a little later--what does it matter? You belong to me, like the suns, the nations, the cities, the kings, the snow on the mountains, and the grass in the fields. I fly higher than the sparrow-hawk, I run more quickly than the gazelle; I keep pace even with hope; ... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are those figures which were painted at Babylon on the wall of the temple of Belus, and they covered a mosaic in the port of Carthage. I, myself, have sometimes seen in the sky what seemed like forms of spirits. Those who traverse the desert meet animals passing all concep... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Chimera; stop!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, never!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not run so quickly; do not fly so high; do not bark so loud!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do not address me, do not address me any more, since... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I seek fresh perfumes, larger flowers, pleasures hitherto unknown. If anywhere I find a man whose soul reposes in wisdom, I fall upon him and strangle him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The strongest, in order to climb to my royal forehead, mount upon the stripes of... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Fantasy, bear me on thy wings to enliven thy sadness!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "O Unknown One, I am in love with thine eyes! I turn round thee, soliciting allayment of that which devours me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My feet cannot raise the... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't puff too strongly! The drops of rain bruise us; the false sounds excoriate us; the darkness blinds us. Composed of breezes and of perfumes, we roll, we float--a little more than dreams, not entirely beings."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We live quite at our ea... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We proceed straight on our way, passing through every mire, running along the verge of every abyss; and we are the most industrious, happy, and virtuous people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are burnt, drowned, or run over; but we always reappear more full of lif... |
25053 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be bold, comrades, and snap your jaws!"
}
] |
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