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"The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things."
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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."

"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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"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."

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"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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