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History, that excitable and lying old lady.
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A man who looks a part has the soul of that part.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs!
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.
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Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. To live, in fact, is to die.
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I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were bom in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? who knows? How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!
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Conversation... is the art of never appearing a bore, of knowing how to say everything interestingly, to entertain with no matter what, to be charming with nothing at all.
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I was hard hit. I wanted to ask this little girl to marry me. If we had passed eight days together, I should have done so! How weak and incomprehensible a man sometimes is!
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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved — no — that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And then — and then — all passes.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
August 5, 1850
Died:
July 6, 1893
(aged 42)
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