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• The only really indecent people are the chaste.
• The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and…
• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious…
• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the…
• Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead…
• Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the…
• Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
• There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
• The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
• Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew…
• Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on…
• Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If…

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