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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.