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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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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

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Life is a flower of which love is honey.

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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

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Genius: the superhuman in man.

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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

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