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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.

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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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