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There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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

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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

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He does not weep who does not see.

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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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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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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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

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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

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

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