Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

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Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

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Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

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I am not the we of anyone.

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

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His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

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Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

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