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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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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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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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