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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

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I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

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I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

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Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

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... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

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There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

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In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody

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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

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Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

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The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all.

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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on.

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The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach

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