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"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."
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"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."

"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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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."

"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."

"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."

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."

"How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
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