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"There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home."
"To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her."
"If God does not exist, then everything is permissible."
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
"Wealth is the number of things one can do without."
"And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet."
"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."
"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
"You can be sincere and still be stupid."
"Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal."
"When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift... every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If only youth knew! Now my life will change; now I will be reborn."
"To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be."
"Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith."
"At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts."
"Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."
"The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
"People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."
"Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest."
"What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead."
"A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."