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Women are more credulous than men.

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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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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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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

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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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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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Those who live are those who fight.

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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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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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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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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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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

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A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.

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