We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
From George Sand
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
No human creature can give orders to love.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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