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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world.
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
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