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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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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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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all se...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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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things

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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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in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, ...more

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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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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.