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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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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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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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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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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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

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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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God was bored by him.

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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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