Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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The only certainty is death.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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