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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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It is often our best friends who throw us down.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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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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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

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