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“La difficulté de réussir ne fait qu’ajouter à la nécessité d’entreprendre.”
― Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville ou La Précaution Inutile

“Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.

(Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.)”
― Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville

“Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas And Melisande

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

“It is love that is sacred," she said." Listen, child, to an old woman who has seen three generations, and who has had a long experience of men and women. Marriage and love have nothing in common. We marry to found a family, and we form families in order to constitute society. Society cannot dispense with marriage. If society is a chain, each family is a link in that chain. In order to weld those links, we always seek metals of the same order. When we marry, we must bring together suitable conditions; we must combine fortunes, unite similiar races and aim at the common interest, which is riches and children. We marry only once, my child, because the world requires us to do so, but we love twenty times in one lifetime because nature has made us like this. Marriage, you see, is law and love is an instinct which impels us, sometimes along a straight, and sometimes along a devious path. The world has made laws to combat our instincts- it was necessary to make them; but our instincts are always stronger, and we ought not to resist them too much, because they come from God; while laws come from men. If we did not perfume life with love, as much love as possible,darling, as we put sugar into drugs for children, nobody would care to take it just as it is.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

[My Uncle Sosthenes]”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2 of 3

“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.”
― Henry A. Giroux, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism