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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

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A library implies an act of faith.

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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