Man has many wishes that he does not really wish to fulfil, and it would be a misunderstanding to suppose the contrary. He wants them to remain wishes, they have value only in his imagination; their fulfilment would be a bitter disappointment to him. Such a desire is the desire for eternal life. If it were fulfilled, man would become thoroughly sick of living eternally, and yearn for death.
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His times were to see the beginning and the carrying forward, to some quite serious degree, of the fulfilment of these words.
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Autumn, with the beautifully coloured leaves, has always been a "Season of Fulfilment". Spring, on the other hand, is a "Season of Promise".
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One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loth to communicate his full plans to any other person until the instant of their fulfilment.
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