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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

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Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

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Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

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Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide.

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You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

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