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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

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There are no rules for felicity.

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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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