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Paul Bourget

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    Paul Bourget

    A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

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    At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.

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    Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

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    Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.

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    It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived

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    I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

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    Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.

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    One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

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    The forests have taught man liberty.

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    There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

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    There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?

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    There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

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    There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.

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    There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

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    There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

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    Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

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    Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who have triumphed in the melancholy struggle for literary supremacy

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    It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.