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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

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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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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.

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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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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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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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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

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Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names.

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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

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