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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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Emotion is always new.

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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

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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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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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France is great because she is France.

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.

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Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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