The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

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