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Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

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To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.

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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

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In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

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Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

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Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.

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Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.

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A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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