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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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Emotion is always new.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

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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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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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Despotism is a long crime.

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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