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• There is something great and terrible about suicide.
• Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
• The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent…
• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
• Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or…
• Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
• A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
• A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
• A mother who is really a mother is never free.
• The more one judges, the less one loves.

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