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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

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If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

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When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

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Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

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For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

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