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Love at its highest point--love sublime, unique, invincible--leads us straight to the brink of the great abyss, for it speaks to us directly of the infinite and of eternity.
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The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; sunrise itself is a lesser marvel.
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What to the intellect is old and worn-out is perennially young and fresh to the heart; curiosity is insatiable, but love is never tired.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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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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To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life.
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Nothing is more hidden from us than the illusion which lives with us day by day, and our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
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do not hope to excite love except by love
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To sleep is to strain and purify our emotions, to deposit the mud of life, to calm the fever of the soul
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Courage returns as we gaze; when we see what has been, we doubt no more that it can be again.
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To love, to dream, to feel, to learn, to understand--all these are possible to me if only I may be relieved from willing.
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Man is only what he becomes--profound truth; but he becomes only what he is, truth still more profound.