• Thought and Reason

  Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  4.8 · 38 votes · 133 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

  4.0 · 30 votes · 157 reads

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• Society

  For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  3.2 · 29 votes · 197 reads

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• Virtues

  Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

  3.8 · 11 votes · 74 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!

  4.3 · 48 votes · 154 reads

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• Defects

  I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

  3.5 · 14 votes · 105 reads

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• Various

  I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mi

  4.7 · 61 votes · 69 reads

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• Society

  Inspiration comes of working every day.

  3.5 · 58 votes · 156 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

  3.2 · 61 votes · 132 reads

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• Feelings

  It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  3.1 · 46 votes · 37 reads

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• Virtues

  Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

  4.1 · 50 votes · 159 reads

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• Art and Culture

  On the day when a young Writercorrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

  3.2 · 5 votes · 178 reads

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• Society

  Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguis

  3.6 · 46 votes · 197 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

  4.5 · 27 votes · 89 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

  3.7 · 43 votes · 116 reads

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• Society

  The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  3.0 · 24 votes · 195 reads

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• Feelings

  The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  3.6 · 22 votes · 195 reads

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• Various

  The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

  4.7 · 51 votes · 96 reads

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• Time

  The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

  3.7 · 53 votes · 129 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

  3.2 · 57 votes · 153 reads

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• Virtues

  There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

  3.2 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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• Art and Culture

  To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

  3.8 · 59 votes · 49 reads

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• Various

  What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  4.3 · 29 votes · 154 reads

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