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You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of S...more

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. ...more

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Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think th...more

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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.