"Masterpieces are only lucky attempts."
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"Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself"
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"Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything."
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"One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old."
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"Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy."
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"God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other."
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"I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being."
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"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."
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"Every historian discloses a new horizon."
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"A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good."
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"I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity."
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"It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil."
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"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it."
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"Sorrow makes us very good or very bad."
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"The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling."
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"When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you..."
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"The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm."
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"A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free."
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"nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry."
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"Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart."
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