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Art is the accomplice of love.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
The woman who loves always smells good.
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.
To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.
Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.