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" A great artist is a great man in a great child. "
Victor Hugo
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" Despotism is a long crime. "
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" Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. "
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" One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. "
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" Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. "
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" There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. "
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" Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! "
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" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "
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" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "
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" Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. "
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" The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. "
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" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "
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" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "
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