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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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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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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

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Progress is the stride of God.

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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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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People do not read stupidities with impunity.

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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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