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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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