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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

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I was dying when you came.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

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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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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

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