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• Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
• The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows…
• Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
• Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends…
• There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened…
• No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly…

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