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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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