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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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

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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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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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Love is the only future God offers.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.

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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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