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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

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One hour of love has a whole life in it.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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Love is the poetry of the senses.

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

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The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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There are words which cut like steel.

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Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

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Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

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For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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Love which economizes is never true love.

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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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Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

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Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

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