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So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane.

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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

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

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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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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 compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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