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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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Personal Development
"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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Personal Development
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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Personal Development
"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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Personal Development
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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Personal Development
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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Personal Development
"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
Love
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love
"Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances."
Nature
"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry
"Progress, this great heresy of decay."
Progress
"Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine."
Religion
"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream
"Inspiration comes of working every day."
Inspirational
"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty
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