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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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