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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.

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

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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.

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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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