A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
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A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
