"The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible."
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"Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment."
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"No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted."
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"Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party."
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"The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten."
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"Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."
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"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."
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"Taste is the common sense of genius."
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"A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground."
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"What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another."
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"The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages."
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"Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven."
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"Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter."
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"One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas."
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"There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom."
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"No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child."
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"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
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"The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."
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"God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."
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"Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes."
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