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

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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I see black light (his last words)

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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

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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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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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