Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
MADAME DE STAELThe mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self.
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The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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