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We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.


Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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JULES VERNE Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNE So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is th...
JULES VERNE We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...
JULES VERNE Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will...
JULES ORMONT There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
JULES ELLINGER Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts.
JULES ELLINGER Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
JULES COMBARIEU I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.
JULES ASNER I hardly wear any makeup.
JULES ASNER I can't stand accessories.
JULES ASNER I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school....
JULES ASNER I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.
JULES ASNER It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good rea...
JULES VERNE Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the ...
JULES VERNE Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which prod...
JULES VERNE How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their ch...
JULES VERNE In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.
JULES VERNE I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations ...
JULES MASSENET With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
JULES VERNE The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear...
JULES VERNE A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
JULES RENARD I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
JULES RENARD Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
JULES RENARD The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving ...
JULES RENARD Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
JULES RENARD I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.
JULES RENARD Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you wil...
JULES ORMONT Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
JULES RENARD Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Usi...
JULES CARLYSLE Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
JULES COMBARIEU Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though i...
JULES FEIFFER Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
JULES VERNE Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD Words are the small change of thought.
JULES RENARD The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they'v...
JULES FEIFFER