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A library implies an act of faith.
To love is the half of to believe.
Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
Foppery is the egotism of clothes.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
Women are more credulous than men.
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Those who live are those who fight.
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
Love is the only future God offers.
The malicious have a dark happiness.
To learn to read is to light a fire.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
When liberty returns, I will return.
A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
No religion but blasphemes a little.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
Monastic incarceration is castration.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
I am for religion, against religions.
France lost a great novel last night.
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
If nobody loved, the sun would go out.
There shall be no slavery of the mind.
France is great because she is France.
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
God made only water, but man made wine.
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Life is a flower of which love is honey.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
A writer is a world trapped in a person.
Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.