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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.

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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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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

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

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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

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