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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.