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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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The malicious have a dark happiness.

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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

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