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Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.
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The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant who passed that way. The branches are broken at a height that other men cannot reach.
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Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.
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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
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The roses of old time have filled the well. Is it there that you have been hiding, my sweet love?
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Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.
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The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
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To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.
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Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
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