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

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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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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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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

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She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

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

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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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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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

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