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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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Reality in strong doses frightens.

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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 sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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