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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

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Every historian discloses a new horizon.

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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

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Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

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The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

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