"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity."
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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
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"Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun."
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"Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great."
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"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
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"There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens."
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"Not everyone can be an orphan."
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"At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing."
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"We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy."
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"Wisdom comes not from reason but from love."
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"There are admirable potentialities in every human being."
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"Solitude is bearable only with God."
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"It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing."
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"The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black."
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"The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted."
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"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."
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"To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy."
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"I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves."
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"Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him."
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"Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age."
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