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Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, ...more

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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

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Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh a...more

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Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.