We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
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Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die Is death, then, the secret of life The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.
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Let mystery have its place in you do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...
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