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Labor is life; thought is light.

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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

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And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

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Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

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

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Monastic incarceration is castration.

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

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To learn to read is to light a fire.

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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There are things stronger than the strongest man.

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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

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The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

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She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

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