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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

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Toleration is the best religion.

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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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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

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

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