If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMy love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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