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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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God was bored by him.
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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.