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- All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
- I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events…
- Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
- Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
- Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left.…
- The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless…
- It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first…
- To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray…
- A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two…
- We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
- Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
- What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze…
- Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide