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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

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

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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Reality in strong doses frightens.

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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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What love commences can be finished by God alone.

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Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

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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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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

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