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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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To have lied is to have suffered.

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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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Those who live are those who fight.

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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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