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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.