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Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

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Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

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Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

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Holding this book in your hand, sinking back in your soft armchair, you will say to yourself: perhaps it will amuse me. And after you have read this story of great misfortunes, you will no doubt dine well, blaming the author for your own insensitivity, accusing him of wild exaggeration and flights of fancy. But rest assured: this tragedy is not a fiction. All is true.

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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