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• I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and…
• One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
• Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever…
• Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
• When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it…
• Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.
• Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able…
• It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of…
• They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without…
• It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went away; in…
• Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I…
• When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I…

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