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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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The union of a want and a sentiment.

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Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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

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Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

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A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

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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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To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

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Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

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We love because we love.

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

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The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

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