We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
From Victor Hugo
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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