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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths. Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me. It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all. Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse. I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die. The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you. Write for pleasure and publish for money. I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.