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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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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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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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Happiness wishes everybody happy.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.

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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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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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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

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