"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

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Source : "Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri Frederic Amiel, Macmillan, transl. by Humphry Ward, 1893.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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“I dont think about the Fonda legacy much.”
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”

Source : James Joyce (2013). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition”, p.134, Courier Corporation
“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”
“In pain is a new time born.”
“Life is a sport...drink it up.”
“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”

Source : Letter to Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory, 16 Aug. 1776
“We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.”
“Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.”

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