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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

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I'm religiously opposed to religion.

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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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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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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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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.

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