When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from…

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Novels are longer than life.

Novels are longer than life.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

With renunciation life begins.

With renunciation life begins.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name...

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism...

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism...

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of...

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of...