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There is no love of life without despair of life.

Albert Camus

Love of Life

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Camus, Albert. "Love of Life." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage, 1970.

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Gauguin, Paul. Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Indiana University Press, 1958, p. 18.

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Voltaire. Essai sur l'Histoire Generale et sur les Moeurs et l'Espri des Nations [An Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1756, ch. 70.

At least a third of all the people in the world died.

Jean Froissart

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Froissart, Jean. Chroniques. c. 1369, bk. 1.

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Froissart, Jean. Chronicles, translated and edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Penguin Classics, 1978, bk. 1.

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Molière. Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux [The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover]. King's Players, 4 June 1666, ThĂ©Ă¢tre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 5.

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Moliere. "The Misanthrope." The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays, translated by Maya Slater. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3, sc. 5.

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Robespierre, Maximilien. Response a J. B. Louvet [Answer to Louvet's Accusation]. 5 Nov. 1792.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Apologie de Raimond Sebond [Apology for Raimond Sebond]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "An Apology for Raymond Sebond." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Moliere. Les Femmes Savantes [The Learned Ladies]. 11 Mar. 1672, ThĂ©Ă¢tre du Palais-Royal, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 7.

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Moliere. "The Clever Women." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 2, sc. 7.

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Flaubert, Gustave. L'Education sentimentale [Sentimental Education]. Paris: Michel Levy, 1869, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Sentimental Education, translated by Patrick Coleman and Helen Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2016, pt. 1, ch. 5.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

Madame de Stael

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Madame de Stael. Corinne ou L'Italie [Corinne or Italy]. Paris, 1807, bk. 18, ch. 5, st. 4.

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Madame de Stael. Corinne, or Italy, translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 18, ch. 5, st. 4.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De La Praesumption [Of Presumption]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Presumption." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Moliere. L'Avare [The Miser]. 9 Sept. 1668, Theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris, act 3, sc. 5.

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Moliere. "The Miser." The Miser and Other Plays, translated by David Coward and John Wood. Penguin Classics, 2000, act 3, sc. 5.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 6 Feb. 1876.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 1980.

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Pasteur, Louis. Speech in Douai. On the occasion of the solemn installation of the Faculty of Arts of Douai and the Faculty of Sciences of Lille. 7 Dec. 1854, Douai, France.

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De Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron. La Folle JournĂ©e, ou Le Mariage de Figaro [The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro]. 27 Apr. 1784, ThĂ©Ă¢tre Français, Paris, France, act 4, sc. 1.

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De Beaumarchais, Pierre- Augustin Caron. "The Marriage of Figaro." The Figaro Trilogy, translated by David Coward. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 1.

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Abelard, Pierre. O What Their Joy and Their Glory Must Be. c. 1800.

I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature.

Claude Monet

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Monet, Claude. The Artist in His Studio, written by Alexander Liberman. Viking Press, 1960.

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Descartes, René. Principia Philosophica [Principles of Philosophy]. Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1644, pt. 2, sect. 16.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Que Philosopher C'Est Apprendre a Mourir [That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

Zadig

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Voltaire. Zadig ou la Destinée [Zadig; or, The Book of Fate]. Londres: Pour la Cie, 1747, ch. 6.

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Voltaire. "Zadig." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Donald M. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 6.