in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
The eye was in the tomb and stared at Cain.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? No. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.
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