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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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I’m religiously opposed to religion.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.