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Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

The heart that once has been your shrine for other loves is too divine

As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love is born anew.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

One must not trifle with love.

life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

Great artists have no country.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!

The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

I have come too late into a world too old.

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man ...

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

The return makes one love the farewell.

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Memory is what makes us young or old.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Hast thou found out, Voltaire, that it is bliss to die,
And does thy hideous smile over thy bleached bones fly?

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Is is true that dictators never dream because they can change their smallest fantasies into realities if they want to?

The costliest women are the ones who cost nothing.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Look at the sun! It's dry, it's dead, it needs a drink, it wants blood! And I'll give it blood!

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you,
Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself.

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them