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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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

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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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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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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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France is great because she is France.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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