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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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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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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

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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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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

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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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