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For a long time I would go to bed early.
In French: Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.
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For a long time I used to go to bed early.
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That translucent alabaster of our memories.
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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The true paradises are paradises we have lost.
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Love is space and time made tender to the heart.
In French: L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.
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[Music] a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.
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Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.
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Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
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I have a horror of sunsets, they're so romantic, so operatic.
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
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What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
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A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
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Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.
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Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.
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The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
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The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.
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Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.
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The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.
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For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.
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A doctor who doesn't say too many foolish things is a patient half-cured.
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
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Reading...that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
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The nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
July 10, 1871
Died:
November 18, 1922
(aged 51)
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