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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.