"When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?"
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"Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance."
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"The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree."
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"All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains."
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"These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow."
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"To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris."
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"Love is a fault; so be it."
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"The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it."
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"Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind."
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"The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius."
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"Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer."
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"France lost a great novel last night."
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"The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had."
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"To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just."
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"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her."
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"But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God."
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"I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity."
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"And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them."
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"I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill."
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"There must be people who pray even for those who never pray."
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