"God made only water, but man made wine."
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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."
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"If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas."
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"Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must."
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"Liberation is not deliverance."
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"What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind."
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"A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion."
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"If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love."
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"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."
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"There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think."
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"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
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"In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare."
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"A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."
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"The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."
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"You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
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"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
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"I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race."
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"Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them."
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"Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface."
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"When liberty returns, I will return."
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