I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.
(Letter to Louise Colet, 1852)

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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

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If you knew all the dreams I've dreamed!

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