Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.Edmond de Goncourt
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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