Garabet Ibrăileanu, page 4
Romanian scholar, publicist, novelist, literary critic and historian
Through feelings, be they good or bad, you depend on people. Through intelligence, you dominate them.
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When you are able to say why you love a woman, you don't truly love her.
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Memories are a music that comes to us from somewhere beyond the horizon.
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A stupid man does not say intelligent things, but an intelligent man says many stupid things.
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Happiness is the pleasure of the soul. A simple sensation, a sound, a colour, the touch of a woman's hand, if it engages the soul, becomes a blessing.
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There can be no greater insult to a man than when a woman he is friends with falls in love, while still being friends with him, with another man.
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The face of a woman passes in one day only through many ages. A woman who is thirty-five when calm is forty when grumpy, thirty when cheerful and twenty when vibrant with love!
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Moonlight makes an impression even on the inferior senses: a moonlit night seems colder.
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A young woman cannot take a walk in the fields without picking flowers.
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Girls are chrysalises that takes one by surprise when they transform.
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