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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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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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Taste is the common sense of genius.

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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.

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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

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