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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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

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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

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Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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Progress is the life-style of man.

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.

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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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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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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

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