This is an important book the critic assumes because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.
I can only note that the past is beautiful, because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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