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"They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space."
"Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates."
"A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man."
"Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking."
"For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art."
"Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?"
"Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
"No religion but blasphemes a little."
"It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth."
"There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation."
"You preserve your shame but you kill your glory."
"Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume."
"...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men."
"Reality in strong doses frightens."
"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves."
"A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking."
"If nobody loved, the sun would go out."
"Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter."
"Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness."
"The ox suffers, the cart complains."