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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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God was bored by him.

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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

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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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Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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

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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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