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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.

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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

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In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

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

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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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