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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

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Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.

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Being a bird ain't all about flying and shitting from high places.

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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

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All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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Minds differ still more than faces.

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A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

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This is no time to be making new enemies.

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