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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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It is reported in the supplement of the council of Nicæan that the fathers, being very perplexed to know which were the cryphal or apocryphal books of the Old and New Testaments, put them all pell-mell on an altar, and the books to be rejected fell to the ground. It is a pity that this eloquent procedure has not survived.

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A small number of choice books are sufficient.

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

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If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

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I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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