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Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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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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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.

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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.

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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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I was dying when you came.

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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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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

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