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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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Emotion is always new.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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Every blade has two edges he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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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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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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