The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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- Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!