The convulsion had relinquished its grip, and Juan had slipped into a catatonic-like requiescence. |
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I threw myself on the bed, quite spent with the pursuit of pleasure, and glad to retire to filence and requiescence. |
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Whether or not the time of stirring and the time of requiescence of the two impulses, the general and the special one, coincide respectively, we do not know. |
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There is no compelling logical reason to assume particularly that the moments of their requiescence coincide, and there is fair psychological ground to believe that they do not. |
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Such bolts clutched promptly overnight, and launched with the early new morning, shall strike agitated Paris if not into requiescence, yet into wholesome astonishment. |
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It doesn't need to be anything more than what it is: a deep dive into requiescence that lasts just long enough for the outside world to slow to a silent stillness. |
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