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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

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I see black light (his last words)

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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France is great because she is France.

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Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

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