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

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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

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Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

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

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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

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

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

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