I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
VOLTAIREIn every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
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Injustice in the end produces independence.
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
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I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
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It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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