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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
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"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
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"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
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"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
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"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
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"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
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"The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it."
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being
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