| |  | | | | | | | | | | | Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. | | Uncategorized | | | The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. | | Uncategorized | | | The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. | | Uncategorized | | | The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world | | Prayer | | | The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. | | Uncategorized | | | There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. | | Uncategorized | | | | | Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness. | | Uncategorized | | | Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. | | Uncategorized | | | Vanity is the quicksand of reason | | Vanity | | | We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire | | Uncategorized | | | Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. | | Work | | | You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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