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Comtesse Diane
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“A multiplicity of explanations undermine their own credibility.”
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“Boredom is the fear of self.”
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“The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.”
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“It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions about them.”
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“The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost: they are added to the ages of other women.”
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“One speaks on behalf of others, one acts on behalf of oneself.”
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“It is not enough to become admired, one must also be forgiven for it.”
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“One suffers in silence from the trouble that humiliates.”
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“Kind words do not console us for criticism; they seem less sincere to us.”
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“The compulsion to rescue willy-nilly those who are drowning strikes to the heart of our freedoms. I am all for fishing out of the water those who fall in, but let us respect those who have thrown themselves in.”
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“Pulled from the water, the suicide is obliged to begin again to die.”
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“Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.”
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“Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.”
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“Poets are those who know how to give shape to my dreams.”
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“Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses.”
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“Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it.”
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“One has to be very religious to change one's religion.”
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“When unable to appear to be someone, one can always appear to have been someone; everyone is capable of this.”
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“It would seem that the fortunes of the rich belong to everybody, since everybody has an idea about how they should be used.”
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“Every one who is loved has lost the right to die.”
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“Devotion to one's family is only egoism of a lesser kind.”
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“One must be born an artist in order to do the work of becoming one.”
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“Every joy digs its own grave.”
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“Events never arrive as we fear they will, nor as we hope they will.”
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“Talent makes us larger than we are, self-denial makes us smaller.”
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“How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are?”
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“Talent is forgiven only in the dead; those who are still standing cast shadows.”
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“What a poet is hope! what a painter the memory!”
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“Laziness is an art, idleness is only a craft.”
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“Awkwardness steps on a platter; clumsiness breaks it.”
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“We more quickly forget kindnesses than offenses: caresses leave fewer traces than bites.”
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“Each country has its own style, its own customs, even its own insanities.”
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“Gratitude weighs heavily on us only when we no longer feel it.”
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“In families, the youngest child is made much of. In the world of literature, it is quite other: the most recent book is found inferior to the first, and is whipped with the lauriers of its brother.”
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“Old age would be the most happy of the stages of life, if only one did not know it was the last.”
Comtesse Diane, French writer
(1829 - 1899)
Real name: Comtesse Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq. Sometimes referred to as Diane de Beausacq.