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Gustave Flaubert

"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands."

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"But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands."

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"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."

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"You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you."

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"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."

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"Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult."

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"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."

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"Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love-be there for others-bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest."

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"The mind judges in order to love. The heart just loves unconditionally."

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"If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?"

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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?"

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