When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Eternity - waste of time.
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
Novels are longer than life.
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
With renunciation life begins.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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