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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

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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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Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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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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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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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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A library implies an act of faith.

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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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

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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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