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"Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?"
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"My life is wondrous, and I appreciate it every day!"
"You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have."
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"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
"It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions."
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
"... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy."
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
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