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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

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The true artist can only labor con amore.

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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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Love is a fault; so be it.

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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