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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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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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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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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.

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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

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Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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