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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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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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Progress is the stride of God.

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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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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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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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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

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