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/ page 264 of 1205 /One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.
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One can resist an intrusion of armies but not an idea whose time has come.
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Oh! love!... 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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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor
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So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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