All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.
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What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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Read in order to live.
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Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
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