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To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

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Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

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Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.

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And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

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Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them.

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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.

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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

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What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

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All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

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Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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