Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
From Honore de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
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