Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
From George Eliot
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
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