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This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes