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"Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored."
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"When your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder!"

"The real you is not you, the real you is what is within you. What is behind your joy or your melancholy. What gives you the reason to ponder. What moves or stops you. What makes you you is you."

"If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment."

"The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music."

"Family: a foundation! Family: a 'cloth' keeps the 'body'!"

"The greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom."

"No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!"
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"Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty."


"Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."


"On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons."


"I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. The birds are astonishing. What a festival everywhere! The nightingale is a gratuitous Elleviou.Summer, I salute thee!"


"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night."


"Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books to write and all sorts of other things. Anaxagoras used to say that he was in the world in order to admire the sun. And then I have the good fortune to be able to spend my days from morning to night in the company of a man of genius - myself - and it's very pleasant."
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