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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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A writer is a world trapped in a person.

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There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

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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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Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?

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Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. '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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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

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It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

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