If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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