Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one…

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters...

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters...

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary...

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary...

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last...

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born...

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born...

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he...

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he...

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I...

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I...

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes...

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes...

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.