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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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I am for religion, against religions.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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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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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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

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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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