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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

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