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/ page 1151 of 1205 /The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
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Power without abuse loses its charm.
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The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
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Politeness is organized indifference.
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We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
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A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
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