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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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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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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns.

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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