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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

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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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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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