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“There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ.”
“A great many people were put down as mad among us last year.”
“Money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.”
“A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
“Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more.”
“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing.”
“To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it.”
“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”
“One must really be a great man to be able to make a stand even against common sense.”
“The thirst for culture is an aristocratic thirst. Boredom is an aristocratic sensation.”
“The convictions and the man are two very different things.”
“All are unhappy because all are afraid to express their will.”
“God is necessary to me, if only because he is the only being whom one can love eternally.”
“For there are two sorts of mind: one that matters, and one that doesn't matter.”