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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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

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

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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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