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God knows better than we do what we need.

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Reality in strong doses frightens.

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Those who do not weep, do not see.

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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness.

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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

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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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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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