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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.