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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."

"You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress."

"The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people's eyes or by looking deep within themselves."

"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."
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"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."

"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."
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