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Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter, when all is...
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The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and ...
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The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only a heresy in ...
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ig...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau ... is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and a...
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I used to think of death ... like I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has ...
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