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The forests have taught man liberty.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Men
Forests
Liberty
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Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Ideas
Light
Literature
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I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Meditating
Reality
Sleep
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Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Flirting
Sin
Virtue
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There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Life
Infamous
One Thing
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There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Happiness
Heart
Mean
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One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Life
Truth
Lying
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There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
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Blindness
Complicity
Conditions
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At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.
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Certain
Moments
Tone
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We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Ends
Thinking
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Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Happiness
Ill Health
Thinking
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Experience
Love
Doe
Use
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Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Art
Character
Lying
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There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Delight
Idols
Intellectual
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There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation - never ceases to love.
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Life
Men
Love Is
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Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.
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Artist
Feelings
Giving Up
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There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Aids
Better Life
Duty
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It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next step. The flow-on effect. Opportunities will become evident. Motivations will become clear. Perspective will emerge. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
Paul Bourget / Novelist
Opportunity
Motivation
Thinking
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