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"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."

"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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