"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance."
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"Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds."
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"Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it."
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"Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it."
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"Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever."
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"If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful."
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"Be kind. Aim for my heart."
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"Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another."
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"I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."
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"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."
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"Order is the key to all problems."
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"I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself."
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"I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away."
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"A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky."
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"The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe."
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"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."
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"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge."
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"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
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