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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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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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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. '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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It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

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