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His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...more

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of peo...more

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Be happy without picking flaws.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in the middle of the starry nig...more

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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the...more

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He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbr...more

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That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was fi...more

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later o...more

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The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

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When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.