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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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