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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.

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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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Those who do not weep, do not see.

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It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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