A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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