To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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