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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

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Love is the only future God offers.

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To love is the half of to believe.

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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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