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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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Morality is truth in full bloom.

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Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

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

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Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

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A wedding is not house-keeping.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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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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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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When liberty returns, I will return.

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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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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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