Garabet Ibrăileanu, page 3
Romanian scholar, publicist, novelist, literary critic and historian
Friendship is the only purely human affection; all the others have animal origins and are physical.
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It is so pleasant to look at a woman when she does not know that you are looking at her.
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Creation is masculinity; it is the fecundation of reality, from which results a new being, the work of art.
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Pity, when not supported by infinite love, is more offensive than contempt.
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Whenever the economy of a country is under foreign control, the politics of that country will be at the disposal of foreigners,
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If you have doubts about yourself, do not show them, so as not to give to the fool the right to have the same attitude towards you, by borrowing it from you.
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Do not offend even the chastest of women by treating her as though she posed no threat to your honour.
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When you no longer love a man or a woman, it is possible that you cannot understand at all why you loved him or her, no matter how much you struggle to remember.
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