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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and that he was committing a profanation. Moreover, he did not feel one passionate desire for this ravishing woman, whose form he felt against his heart. He was lost in love.

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A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

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