Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

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Stop and consider! life is but a day

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. ― Henry James

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.- Abraham Lincoln

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ― Virginia Woolf

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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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