Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
(The Journal Intime, 1868)

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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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The fire which enlightens is also the fire which consumes.

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We only understand that which already is within us.

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