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I'm looking for a nice symbol to mark the separation between two paragraphs.

This is a for a short document, with 3-4 paragraphs.

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  • Well, this is very opinon based. Some would use a short line, some will use \skull ;-) –  Jun 09 '16 at 14:57
  • Yes, indeed, very opinion based. I wanted to have good ideas from the community. – Colas Jun 09 '16 at 15:01
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    Perhaps a visit to the site's chat would be better? The Stackexchange model is really not about soliciting opinion, but factual answers (within reasonable interpretations). But the question's also not really about TeX-LaTeX either. If you'd chosen a symbol and wanted to know how to get it (assuming the answer wasn't a trivial duplicate of http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14/how-to-look-up-a-symbol-or-identify-a-math-symbol-or-character) that might be different, but this has perfectly little to do with LaTeX itself. Perhaps graphicdesign might be a better home, but it'd still be POB – Au101 Jun 09 '16 at 15:10
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    Asterisms and fleurons. Perhaps this is the question you seek: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160336/asterism-and-similar-breaking-non-breaking-options – Steven B. Segletes Jun 09 '16 at 15:20
  • @StevenB.Segletes Yes, kind of, but a better answer has been given here :) – Colas Jun 09 '16 at 16:03
  • I am pleased that you received extra value in your current round of answers. – Steven B. Segletes Jun 09 '16 at 16:45

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Common esp. in old books is the hedera ❦ (u+x2766) or turned hedera ❧ (u+x2767), newer books often use an asterisk * or triple asterisk (asterism) ⁂ (u+x2012).

Edit as hinted by comment: How to correctly enter depends on the compiler you use. Cf. How to easily use UTF-8 with LaTeX? and related questions.

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    Might be worth adding the (La)TeX code for those symbols (other than the asterisk, which is trivial). e.g. \ding{166}, \ding{166} (pifont) – Nicola Talbot Jun 09 '16 at 15:09
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A very 'baroque' style psvectorian symbols (No, I don't use them personally!)

Compile with --shell-escape enabled or compile with latex 'only', since it uses PostScript based graph drawing. 

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{psvectorian}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\blindtext

\hfil\psvectorian[scale=0.2]{60}\hfil

\blindtext

\hfil\psvectorian[scale=0.2]{60}\hfil

\blindtext
\end{document}

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