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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.

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