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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

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Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.

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Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers.

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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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When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

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We love because we love.

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

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When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

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Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

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Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

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The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

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Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

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