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Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.

— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Corinne (1807)

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Corinne (1807)

Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.

De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Corinne (1807)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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