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" A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. "
Write
Work
Tranquility
" A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about. "
Money
Real
Worth
" Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. "
Beauty
Devil
Fighting
" Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. "
Women
Men
Reason
" Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. "
Happiness
Lie
Achievement
" If there is no God, everything is permitted. "
God
Permitted
Everything
" If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. "
Love
You
World
" It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? "
Me
Without
Sing
" It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. "
First
Fact
Man
" Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. "
Happiness
Count
Enough
" Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. "
He
Likes
Man
" Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. "
Long
Man
Someone
" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "
Slay
Worship
Death
" Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. "
Unsaid
Because
Things
" One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. "
Know
You
Man
" Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! "
Up
Power
Dare
" Realists do not fear the results of their study. "
Realists
Results
Study
" Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. "
Soul
Last
People
" The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. "
Once
Month
Who
" The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. "
Make
Two
Five
" The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. "
Great
Greatest
Source
" There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. "
Fear
Tell
Mind
" There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. "
Old
Cannot
Said
" The soul is healed by being with children. "
Healed
Soul
Being
" To live without Hope is to Cease to live. "
Cease
Without
Live
" To love someone means to see him as God intended him. "
Love
God
Him
" We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. "
Sometimes
Strangers
Perfect
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