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Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

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In love, what a woman mistakes for disgust is actually clearsightedness. If she does not admire a man, she scorns him.

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Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.

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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

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Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?

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They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.

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Necessity is often the spur to genius.

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People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

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Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

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How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

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The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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True love rules especially through memory.

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