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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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

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.

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...

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

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

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

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

No human creature can give orders to love.

No human creature can give orders to love.

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...

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

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...

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

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

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs

Love is more tiring than friendship for it demands continuous proofs

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

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it...

If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what 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.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken.To truly love is to understand this....

Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken.To truly love is to understand this....

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.

Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.