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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Faith

4.9 · 63 votes

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a li

Love

5.0 · 29 votes

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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, i

Women

4.4 · 27 votes

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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Revolutions

4.7 · 33 votes

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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Death

3.8 · 56 votes · 159 reads

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George Sand

Virtues
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
3.9 · 61 votes · 109 reads
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Art and Culture
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
4.2 · 42 votes · 21 reads
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Feelings
There is only one happiness in life - to love and to be loved.
4.7 · 25 votes · 86 reads
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Society
Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
4.4 · 23 votes · 36 reads
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