Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
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By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneselfGustave Flaubert
You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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A thing derided is a thing dead a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
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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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