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God is only a word dreamed up...

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

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What seems to me the highest ...

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

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A thing derided is a thing de...

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

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Thought is the greatest of pl...

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

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Put all your rage and madness...

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

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But some day sooner or later ...

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

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Everything depends on the val...

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

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She loved the sea for its sto...

She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

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Talent is a long patience, an...

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

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As you get older, the heart s...

As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.

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Axiome: la haine du bourgeois...

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

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But, in her life, nothing was...

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

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I have no use for the kind of...

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

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The idea of bringing someone ...

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

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Each dream finds at last its ...

Each dream finds at last its form; there is a drink for every thirst, and love for every heart. And there is no better way to spend your life than in the unceasing preoccupation of an idea--of an ideal.

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Life is so horrible that one ...

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

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Prose is like hair; it shines...

Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

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Travel makes one modest. You ...

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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Our ignorance of history caus...

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

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What better occupation, reall...

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

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