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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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