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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.

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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

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If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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

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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.

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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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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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