If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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