Garabet Ibrăileanu, page 5
Romanian scholar, publicist, novelist, literary critic and historian
Admiration, singularization, idealization – the myth created by intelligence and imagination upon the raw instinct – can cover reality in bunches of flowers, and that's that!
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What a rest for the soul, what a release is the charm of a woman who enchants you without arousing in you the slightest desire!
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Thoughts, feelings and deeds always adapt to circumstances, unconsciously.
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When young, when states of the soul are vivid and numerous, time passes by pleasantly and slowly, so much so that, looking back a few years later, it seems like an eternity.
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In any library, living writers are but a small minority; the great readers spend all their lives in conversation with the dead.
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If, by taking one path, you have broken a leg, do not regret that you did not take another, as for all you know you might have broken both of them.
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When a friend leaves you in his suffering, it is just as much proof that he was no true friend to you as if he left you in your suffering.
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