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

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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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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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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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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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