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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: October 30th, 1894

Died: September 4th, 1977

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