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Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
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Intelligence is perhaps but a malady,-a beautiful malady; the oyster's pearl.
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It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.
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Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.
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And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe.
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Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.
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