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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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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.

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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

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I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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

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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

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Everything bows to success, even grammar.

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Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

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