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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

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When liberty returns, I will return.

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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

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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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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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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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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

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