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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

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The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

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You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

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Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

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There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

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Every writer "creates" his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

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Life itself is a quotation.

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