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

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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

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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 was bored by him.

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We are for religion against the religions.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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Emotion is always new.

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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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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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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

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Love is a fault; so be it.

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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