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It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do…
L’argent peut seulement permettre au bonheur de s’épanouir. Au-delà du nécessaire, il ne peut apporter au cœur de satisfactions réelles.
If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Je suis si ridiculement timide que cela me rend souvent négligent et presque impoli, quoique je n’aie jamais l’intention d’offenser personne […] la timidité est toujours l’eefet du sentiment de son infériorité. Si je pouvais me persuader que mes manières sont aisées et gracieuses, je ne serais pas timide.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. […] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be…yours.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be…yours.

La question du genre se distingue de celle de la classe sociale. Quelle que soit leur pauvreté, les hommes ne perdent pas leurs privilèges d’hommes, quand bien même ils ne jouissent pas des privilèges procurés par la richesse.
Nous sommes tous des féministes de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
L’amitié a des grandeurs inconnues de l’amour. Elle se fortifie dans les difficultés, alors que les contraintes massacrent l’amour. Elle résiste au temps qui laisse et désunit les couples. Elle a des élévations inconnues de l’amour.
On ne prend pas rendez-vous avec le destin. Le destin empoigne qui il veut, quand il veut. Dans le sens de vos désirs, il vous apporte la plénitude. Mais le plus souvent, il déséquilibre et heurte. Alors, on subit.
You think, but you don’t know. You don’t know anything about what it’s like to find your other half, I would take anything she chose to give me—the tiniest fraction or her entire world. I would take her for a single night knowing that I’ll lose her by morning, and I would hold on to her and never let go. I would take her healthy, or sick, or tired, or angry, or strong, and it would be my fucking privilege. I would take her problems, her gifts, her moods, her passions, her jokes, her body—I would take every last thing, if she chose to give it to me.
C’est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.
Pose des questions, mais surtout écoute les réponses.
C’est une folie d’haïr toutes les roses parce qu’une épine vous a piqué, d’abandonner tous les rêves parce que l’un d’entre eux ne s’est pas réalisé, de renoncer à toutes les tentatives parce qu’on a échoué…
Toutes les grandes personnes ont d’abord été des enfants. Mais peu d’entre elles s’en souviennent.
On ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
I want her – this fearless, stunning woman. And I want the kids. Those perfect, awful, amazing children – whom she loves with every inch of her soul. I want them to be mine. Mine to hold, mine to protect and teach. Their joy, their laughter, their love. I want to come home to it, bask in it, be the reason for it.
But even more than that, I want to deserve them.
Young love is strong. First love is powerful. But what you don’t know when you’re young—what you can’t know—is how long life actually is. And the only dependable thing about it, besides death and taxes, is change.
The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
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