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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage, Traversé çà et là par de brillants de soleils; Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage, Qu'il reste en mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
― Les Fleurs du Mal
“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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“L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu.”
― Petits Poemes en prose
― Petits Poemes en prose
“A good book is an event in my life.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
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