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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

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To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

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I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn.

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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

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