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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.

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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

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