Misery offers; society accepts
She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.
If they had had a different neighbour, one less self-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-...
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
She was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and cried for vengeance, saying: Father, you owe my husba...
If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light.
If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct.
Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen.
To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed.
We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.
He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars.
No corruption is possible with the diamond.
The shock caused by the fall of a careless word displaces that against which it strikes. At times it happens, without our knowing why, that because we have received an almost imperceptible blow from a...
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to the shore.
No temamos nunca ni a los ladrones ni a los asesinos: esos son los peligros exteriores, los pequeños peligros. Las preocupaciones, esas son los ladrones; los vicios, esos son los asesinos. Los grandes...
He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which the child was found, or because he wished to show by this name how imperfect and...
To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.
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