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The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all,
I know immortal ones composed only of tears.

Alfred de Musset

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Musset, Alfred. "La nuit de mai [A Night In May]." Revue des Deux Mondes, 15 June 1835.

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In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Anatole France

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France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

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We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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In a century which attempts to tear the heart out of every mystery, fashion guards its secret well, and is the best possible proof that there is still magic abroad.

Christian Dior

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Dior, Christian. Quoted in Dior by Christian Dior, written by Olivier Saillard. Assouline, 2017.

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Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

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You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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Men are like plants; the goodness and flavor of the fruit proceeds from the peculiar soil and exposition in which they grow.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Letters from an American Farmer

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Les mamelles de Tirésias [The Breasts of Tiresias]. 1917, Paris, France.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, aph. 9.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, aph. 9.

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We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary.

Jean de La Bruyere

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De La Bruyere, Jean. "Du Coeur [Of the Heart]." Les Caracteres ou Les Moeurs de Ce Siecle [The Characters or The Manners of the Age]. Paris: Chez Estienne Michallet, 1688.

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A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

Philippe Ariès

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Aries, Philippe. Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

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De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

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Achilles exists only through Homer. Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory.

François-Rene de Chateaubriand

Les Natchez

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De Chateaubriand, François-René. Les Natchez. c. 1826, preface.

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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 15.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 15.

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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Marcel Proust

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Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

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Cocteau, Jean. Opium, Journal d'une Desintoxication [Opium: Diary of a Cure]. Librairie Stock, 1930.

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There are two sorts of laws, those of absolute equity and universality, and the bizarre ones which owe their autonomy only to blindness or to the force of circumstance. The latter merely cover the man who is breaking them with a passing disgrace, which time then transfers to the judges and the nations, on whom it remains forever.

Denis Diderot

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Diderot, Denis. Le Neveu de Rameau, ou La Satire seconde [The Nephew of Rameau, or the Second Satire]. 1805 (German); 1891 (original French manuscript).

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Diderot, Denis. "Rameau's Nephew." Rameau's Nephew and Other Works, translated by Jacques Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen. Hackett Publishing Company, 2001.

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For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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De Saluste du Bartas, Guillaume. La Semaine; ou Creation du monde [The First Week; or the Creation of the World]. Paris: Michel Gadoulleau and Jean Febvrier, 1578, first week, fifth day, pt. 1.

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