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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

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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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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

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