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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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

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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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France lost a great novel last night.

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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.

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