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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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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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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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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

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