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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.

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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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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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