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" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "
Victor Hugo
Reveal
Something
Almost
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" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "
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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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" Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. "
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" The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. "
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" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "
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" Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. "
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" I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. "
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" Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. "
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" Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. "
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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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" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "
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" The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. "
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" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "
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" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "
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" Genius: the superhuman in man. "
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" Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. "
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" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "
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" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "
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" As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. "
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" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "
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" Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. "
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Men
Day
" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "
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" Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. "
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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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" To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. "
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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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