"I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven."

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Source : Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition

Alfred de Musset

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“People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.”
“A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.”
“I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.”

Source : "The Bob Benson of His Office: James Wolk on His ‘Mad Men’ Role". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. June 6, 2013.
“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
“God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).”

Source : Jerry Bridges (1991). “Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love”, Navpress Publishing Group
“Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.”
“Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!”
“There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.”

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