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A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.