Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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