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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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