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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

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Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

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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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Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

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It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

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Inspiration is the opportunity of genius.

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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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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

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Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

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If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

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No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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