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Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

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The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

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The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces as in Paris, but you dine better, because the dishes serve you are the result of mediation and study.

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The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

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Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

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Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

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Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.

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Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

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My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

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Economized love is never real love.

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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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A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to a gambling table when he sees that all that lies between him and death is his last crown.

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Reading brings us unknown friends

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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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