"In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles."
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"The vague torment of ... ambition."
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"Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament."
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"It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth."
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"When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other."
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"Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!"
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"The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most."
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"When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down."
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"Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?"
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"And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life"
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"Everything is only a dream."
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"She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment."
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"How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!"
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"Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice."
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"She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself."
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"Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?"
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"Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out."
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"Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat."
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"The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance."
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"It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!"
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