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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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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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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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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

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I was dying when you came.

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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

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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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Popularity? It's glory's small change.

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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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No religion but blasphemes a little.

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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

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