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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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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

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Are you afraid of the good you might do?

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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

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The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps

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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.

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A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

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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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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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Joy is the reflex of terror.

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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

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