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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

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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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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.

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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

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