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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

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Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

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How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

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Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

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Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

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Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

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In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

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A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

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It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

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