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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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Reality in strong doses frightens.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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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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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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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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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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