“Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.”
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
