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“Islam is in its origins an Arab religion. Everyone not an Arab who is a Muslim is a convert. Islam is not simply a matter of conscience or private belief. It makes imperial demands. A convert’s wor...”
“The Hindus, especially in Bengal, welcomed the New Learning of Europe and the institutions the British brought. The Muslims, wounded by their loss of power, and out of old religious scruples, stood...”
“La plus cruelle vengeance d'une femme est quelquefois de nous rester fidèle.”
“I once spoke to my aunt of the vow I had taken, the solemn promise I had made to myself that I would discover the murderer of my father, and take vengeance upon him, and she laid her hand upon my m...”
“I was suddenly carried away by rage to the point of losing all control over my frenzy. Ah! I cried, since you will not do justice on yourself, die then, at once! I stretched out my hand and seized ...”
“I seized the sheet of paper; the lines were written upon it in characters rather larger than usual. How it shook in my hand while I read these words: Forgive me, Marie. I was suffering too much. I ...”
“Was I saved? Was I lost? All depended on the moment at which somebody might go into my stepfather's room. If my mother were to return within a few minutes of my departure; if the footman were to go...”
“I had to take the necessary steps to prevent this alleged suicide from getting known, to see the commissary of police and the doctor of the dead. I had to preside at the funeral ceremonies, to rece...”
“Is there any God, any justice, is there either good or evil? None, none, none, none! There is nothing but a pitiless destiny which broods over the human race, iniquitous and blind, distributing joy...”
“You, who know better than any one the motley world of cosmopolites, understand why I have confined myself to painting here only a fragment of it. That world, indeed, does not exist, it can have nei...”
“There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid ...”
“There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas, said Dorsenne to himself, when the Marquis had left him. He is like the Socialists. What vigor of mind in that old wornout machine!”
“The forests have taught man liberty.”
“There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.”
“When a man has been the lover of a woman as that man had been hers, with the vibrating communion of a voluptuousness unbroken for two years, that woman maintains a sort of physiological, quasi-anim...”
“A de certaines minutes, les mots ne sont rien, c’est le ton qui est tout.”
“There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.”
“There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.”
“Could she not obtain from him the promise to discharge his weapon in the air, if the duel was with pistols, or, if it was with swords, simply to disarm his enemy? Like nearly all persons unversed i...”
“You wished to be only a spectator, the gentleman in the balcony who wipes the glasses of his lorgnette in order to lose none of the comedy. Well, you could not do so. That role is not permitted a m...”
