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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

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

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For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.

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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

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People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.

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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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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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