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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but th...more

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, t...more

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

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I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets ...more

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But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

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He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick an...more

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, th...more

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The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was ...more

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Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly rema...more

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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actio...more

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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in l...more