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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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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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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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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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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

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