One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

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Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

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