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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Genius is sorrow’s child.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent – something like an infant – deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.