Don't think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone; and God is alone; and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God.
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Here among flowers one glass of wine,
with no close friends, I pour it alone.
I lift cup to bright moon, beg its company,
then facing my shadow, we become three.
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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape this aloneness.
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Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, a good digestion.
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Mankind are always happy for having been happy, so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
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After all, tomorrow is another day.
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Always give the patient hope, even when death seems at hand.
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
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Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
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My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.
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