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/ page 1047 of 1205 /Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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Deserve your dream.
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
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Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
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Freedom is a system based on courage.
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Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
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