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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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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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The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. 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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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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To love is the half of to believe.

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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

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