"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."
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"I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty."
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"Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund."
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"I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am."
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"I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly."
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"Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."
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"Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance."
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"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart."
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"Not to love is to cease to live."
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"Lying, like license, has its degrees."
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"I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail."
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"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent."
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"Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven."
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"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."
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"Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?"
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"I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy."
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"The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world"
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"To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self."
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"Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style."
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"Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it."
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