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Color is the place where our brain meets the universe.

Paul Cézanne

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Cézanne, Paul. Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations, 1897 - 1906. Thames and Hudson, 1991. Originally stated during a conversion with Joachim Gasquet, c. 1906.

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Human life begins on the far side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Les Mouches [The Flies]. 3 June 1943, Théâtre de la Cité, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 2.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. "The Flies." No Exit and Three Other Plays, translated by Stuart Gilbert. Vintage, 1989, act 3, sc. 2.

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When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Le Diable et le be Dieu [The Devil and the Good Lord]. Directed by Louis Jouvet. 7 June 1951, Théâtre Antoine, Paris, France.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. "The Devil & the Good Lord." The Devil & the Good Lord and Two Other Plays, translated by Kitty Black. Vintage, 1962.

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Refuse to be an accomplice.

Simone Weil

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Weil, Simone. Personal notebook entry. c 1933.

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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

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Sand, George. Letter to Lina Calamatta. 31 Mar. 1862.

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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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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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I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.

René Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy

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Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, third meditation.

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Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, third meditation.

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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 18, pt. 10.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 18, pt. 10.

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

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Voltaire. The Piccini Notebooks. c. 1738-1750.

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I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.

Charles d'Orléans

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D'Orleans, Charles. "Je meurs de soif en couste la fontaine [I die of thirst beside the fountain]." Poesies de Charles d'Orleans. c. 1440.

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Man, a subject which is marvelously vain, diverse, and like the waves of the sea.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Par Divers Moyens On Arrive a Pareille Fin [That Men by Various Means Arrive at the Same End]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.

Albert Camus

Reflections on the Guillotine

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Camus, Albert and Arthur Koestler. "Réflexions sur la peine Capitale [Reflections on Capital Punishment]." Gallimard, 1957.

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Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 12.

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All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Simone Weil

Gravity and Grace

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Weil, Simone. La Pensanteur et la Grace [Gravity and Grace], edited by Gustave Thibon. Plon, 1947.

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Weil, Simone. "To Desire Without an Object." Gravity and Grace, edited by Gustave Thibon, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario van der Ruhr. Routledge, 2002.

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The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

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France, Anatole. Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1894, ch. 7.

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She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.

Jean Racine

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Racine, Jean. Athalie. 1691, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 3.

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What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Louise Colet. 23 Oct. 1851.

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Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830-1857, translated and edited by Francis Steegmuller. Faber and Faber, 1981.

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Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Louis Pasteur

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Pasteur, Louis. Etudes Des Vin [On the studies of wine]. Paris: Librairie Savy, 1873.

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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition-and perchance to some excess-I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

Michel de Montaigne

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Vanite [Of Vanity]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

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Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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