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France lost a great novel last night.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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I see black light (his last words)

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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.

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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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