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Affreuse condition de l'homme ! Il n'y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque.
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I do not share the belief in indefinite progress for society as a whole; I believe in man's improvement in himself.
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Young man,' Porbus said, seeing Poussin stare open-mouthed at a picture, 'Don't look at the canvas too long, it will drive you to despair.
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Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to anted..
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civilization
cuvier
discoverer
discovery
feeble
fossils
genius
geology
george-byron
george-gordon-byron
george-gordon-noel
george-gordon-noel-byron
georges-cuvier
historian
immensity
lord-byron
memory
mind
montmartre
natural
poet
poetry
science
space
time
treatise
turmoil
urals
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The duchess turned on Eugene with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.
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humor
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Notre coeur est un tresor, videz-le d'un coup, vous etes ruines.
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vie
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sazogadoebrivi azri? - es xom qovel mez'av k`alze up`ro garqvnili arsebaa.
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Helas! Nous ne manquons jamais d'argent pour nos caprices, nous ne discutons que le prix des choses utiles ou necessaires; nous jetons l'or avec insouciance a des danseuses, et nous marchandons un ouvrier dont la famille affamee attend la paiement d'un memoire. Combien de gens ont un habit de cent francs, un diamant a la pomme de leur canne, et dinent a vingt-cinque sous? Il semble que nous n'achetions jamais assez cherementles plaisirs de ..
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A valley full of genuine suffering, and of joys that often turn out to be false, and so incredibly tumultuous that it takes something God only knows how outrageous to cause a lasting stir. But here and there some immense heaping up of vices and virtues turns mere sorrow grand and solemn, and their very sight makes even selfishness and personal advantage stop and feel pity - though that notion of pity is much like some tasty fruit that gets ..
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Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties.
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For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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greed
poverty
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Dans la vie morale, aussi bien que dans la vie physique, il existe une aspiration et une respiration; l'ame a besoin d'absorber les sentiments d'une autre ame, de se les assimiler pour les lui restituer plus riches. Sans ce beau phenomene humain, point de vie au coeur; l'air lui manque alors, il souffre et deperit.
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If you have any mind to keep my respect, I recommend you not to add imbecility to these qualities by imagining that such a girl as I am will be content with your asthmatic love, and not look for youth and good looks and pleasure by way of a variety--
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He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.
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darkness
depression
pale
plant
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A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?
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feeling
senzitive
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Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugene.
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manipulation
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Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee bit?' he asked, placing a hand on the top of her corset. 'A bit of a crush in the vestibule, here, Mamma! If we start crying, there'll be an explosion. Never mind, I'll be there to collect the bits--just like an antiquary.' 'Now, there's the language of true French gallantry,' murmured Madame Vauquer in an aside to Madam..
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comedy
good-natured
humor
mockery
obliviousness
wit
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Karsilik gormemis duygular bazi ruhlarda kin haline gelir, bende ise oyle olmadi; yogunlasti bu duygular icimde, bir yer etti kendine, sonra da oradan hayatima fiskirdi.
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In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.
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honesty
treachery
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Bor'ba imeet svoiu prelest'. Borot'sia - znachit zhit', pust' bor'ba prinosit gore, pust' ona ranit, - vse luchshe, chem besprosvetnyi mrak otvrashcheniia, iad prezritel'noi zamknutosti, kholod tekh, kto otreksia ot bor'by, chem smert' serdtsa, kotoraia zovetsia ravnodushiem.
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Of necessity she went further in aversion than she had gone in love, for her hatred was not in proportion to her love but to her disappointed hopes.
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hope
hopelessnes
love
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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emotions
hatred
heart
love
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Inclinarea spre lene - desfraul sufletelor poetice.
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Il existe je ne sais quoi de grand et d'epouvantable dans le suicide. Les chutes d'une multitude de gens sont sans danger, comme celles des enfants qui tombent de trop bas pour se blesser; mais quand un grand homme se brise, il doit venir de bien haut, s'etre eleve jusqu'aux cieux, avoir entrevu quelque paradis inaccessible. Implacables doivent etre les ouragans qui le forcent a demander la paix de l'ame a la bouche d'un pistolet... Chaque ..
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La flatterie n'emane jamais des grandes ames, elle est l'apanage des petits esprits qui reussissent a se rapetisser encore pour mieux entrer dans la sphere vitale de la personne autour de laquelle ils gravitent. La flatterie sous-entend un interet. (p.239/317)
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Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure."
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happiness
loneliness
love
pleasure
relationships
sadness
sorrow
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I haven't any objection to your thoroughly despising me, right now, because I'm convinced you'll come to love me. You'll find I have some tremendous abysses, some huge, focused emotions that fools think of as vices, but you'll never find me lazy, and you'll never find me ungrateful. In a word, I'm neither a pawn nor a bishop, my young friend, but a castle.
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Trust no one until you are very sure of the heart to which you open your heart. Learn to mistrust every one; take every precaution for the sake of the love which does not exist as yet.
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Notre conscience est un juge infaillible, quand nous ne l'avons pas encore assassinee.
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o ilk gunden beri gunes daha az sicak, daha az aydinlik, gece daha karanlik oldu; hareket hizini yitirdi, dusuncelere bir agirlik geldi. Bazi insanlari topraga gomeriz, ama oyle insanlar vardir ki onlarin kefenleri yuregimiz olmustur, anilari her gun kalbimizin carpisiyla beraberdir, soluk alir gibi onlari dusunuruz, aska ozgu bir ruh titresiminin tatli yasasiyla varligimiza sinmislerdir. Bir ruh var ruhumda. Ben bir iyilik mi ettim, guzel ..
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The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find in the medieval statues. Had she been happy, she'd have been ravishing: happiness constitutes pure poetry, for women.
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To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and which is never truly there unless it comes, automatically and unthinkingly, straight from the heart. [...] For anyone who had learned the social code, and Rastignac had absorbed it all in a flash, these words, that gesture, that look, that inflection in her voice, summed up all there wa..
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character
hypocrisy
kind
kindness
people
personality
ties
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Raphael's] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas and sensations, an exhaustless source of poetic inspiration. Every figure is a world in itself, a portrait of which the original appeared in a sublime vision, in a flood of light, pointed to by an inward voice, laid bare by a divine finger..
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Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublie, parce qu'il a ete proprement fait.
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Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to en..
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duplicities
future
heart
love
passion
pretend
sincerity
test
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no v etom otnoshenii g-zha Voke imela skhodstvo so mnogimi liud'mi, kotorye ne doveriaiut svoim blizkim i otdaiutsia v ruki pervogo vstrechnogo, -- strannoe psikhologicheskoe iavlenie, no ono fakt, i ego korni netrudno otyskat' v samoi chelovecheskoi dushe. Byt' mozhet, nekotorye liudi ne v sostoianii nichem sniskat' raspolozhenie tekh, s kem oni zhivut, i, obnaruzhiv pered nimi vsiu pustotu svoei dushi, chuvstvuiut, chto okruzhaiushchie vt..
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one can no more hinder criticism than the use of eyes, tongues, and judgment.
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Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair.
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judith
mistress
vice
virtue
wife
women
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Life is a business transaction.
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Quand les enfants commencent a voir, ils sourient; quand une jeune fille entrevoit le sentiment dans la nature, elle sourit comme elle souriait enfant. Si la lumiere est le premier amour de la vie, l'amour n'est-il pas la lumiere du coeur?
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So, my dear fellow, if I don't believe in God, I believe still less in man.
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faith
humanity-and-society
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Instead of inspiring the gallant attentions which other women seek, she made men dream,
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However, she wouldn't be the first person to mistrust her nearest and dearest yet confide in the first stranger who comes along: a strange but true quirk of behaviour, whose root is easily traced to the human heart.
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Eh bien, monsieur de Rastignac, traitez ce monde comme il merite de l'etre. Vous voulez parvenir, je vous aiderai. Vous sonderez combien est profonde la corruption feminine, vous toiserez la largeur de la miserable vanite des hommes. Quoique j'aie bien lu dans ce livre du monde, il y avait des pages qui cependant m'etaient inconnues. Maintenant je sais tout. Plus froidement vous calculerez, plus avant vous irez. Frappez sans pitie, vous ser..
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