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 Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.  Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable. Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort. If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing. Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Other people's eggs have two yolks. A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends, enemies, and relatives say behind his back. The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna. With friends like you - who needs enemas. From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary. My poor are my best patients. God pays for them. Friendship admits of differences of character, as love does that of sex. But one always returns to one's first loves. - Etienne All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all. What is perfectly true is perfectly witty. 
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