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The earlier works of a man of ...

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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To introduce a new play only s...

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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As for the author, he is profo...

As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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In the domain of art there is ...

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Art moves. Hence its civilizin...

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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People generally will soon und...

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of nig...

Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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The most excellent symbol of t...

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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Let us say it now: to be blind...

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

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They say love is blindness of ...

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

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Religion, Society, and Nature-...

Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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Man does not understand nor ac...

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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The spirit of God, like the su...

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

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God has bestowed two gifts on ...

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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I write with one hand, but I f...

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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All roads are blocked to a phi...

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.' Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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The Parisian is to the French ...

The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of 'la patrie' he enrols, and at the call of li

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Algebra applies to the clouds....

Algebra applies to the clouds.

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Symmetry is tedious, and tediu...

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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A joyous little creature, so b...

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in...

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