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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

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I was dying when you came.

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You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

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