The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?
タグ: go, ugly, beautiful, life

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The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
タグ: hour, crowded, anticipation, how
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
タグ: grass, difficult, better, alone
What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
タグ: your, memory, future, you
I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
タグ: moment, beautiful, beauty, life
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
タグ: only, world, you, me
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