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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

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Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.

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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

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Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

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A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

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[Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger which showed what the sources of expression had been in the whole past life of the subject.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

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Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

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The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

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Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

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The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

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