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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."
"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"
"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
"Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."
"But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
"If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent."
"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
"I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."
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