“أنا أستقيل من الإنسانية. لم أعد أريد أن أكون, ولم أعد قادرا على أن أكون -إنسانا. ماذا سأفعل؟ أخدم الأنظمة الإجتماعية والسياسية؟, أسود حياة إمرأة ؟ أتصيد نقاط الضعف في النظم الفلسفية, أناضل من أجل القيم الأخلاقية والجمالية؟ كل ذلك هراء. أنبذ إنسانيتي , حتى وان كنت سأجد نفسي وحيدا. ولكن أنا وحيد على كل حال في هذا العالم الذي لم أعد أنتظر منه أي شيء.”
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“When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, lacking the knowledge I needed to live; when I think of how I sinned against my heart and my soul, then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness … Every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If youth only knew. Now my life will change, now I will be reborn.”
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“Here it is. You assume that I am rich; I am not. I shall have nothing once I have emptied my purse. You perhaps suppose that I am a man of high birth, and I am of a rank either lower than your own or equal to it. I have no talent which can earn money, no employment, no reason to be sure that I shall have anything to eat a few months hence. I have neither relatives nor friends nor rightful claims nor any settled plan. In short, all that I have is youth, health, courage, a modicum of intelligence, a sense of honor and of decency, with a little reading and the bare beginnings of a career in literature. My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes. My nature tends toward extravagance. Such is the man I am. Now answer me, my beautiful Teresa.”
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“Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.”
― History of My Life, Volumes III & IV
― History of My Life, Volumes III & IV
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