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"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
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