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Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

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When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

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By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

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Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

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No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

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In general, every country has the language it deserves.

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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

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The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

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