Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

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Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

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Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

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I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.

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