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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.

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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

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I see black light (his last words)

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Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

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

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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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