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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.
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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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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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Lever à six, coucher à dix,Dîner à dix, souper à six,Font vivre l'homme dix fois dix.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.