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" Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. "

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" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "

" We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. "

" The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. "

" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "

" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "

" To love beauty is to see light. "

" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "

" When liberty returns, I will return. "

" 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! "

" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "

" Taste is the common sense of genius. "

" Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. "

" Toleration is the best religion. "

" One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. "

" Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. "

" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "

" Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. "

" One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. "

" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "

" A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. "

" Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. "

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "

" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "

" There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. "

" To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. "

" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "