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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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

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

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So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower ...more