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" Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. "

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" There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. "

" Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. "

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" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "

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" Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. "

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" Many great actions are committed in small struggles. "

" Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. "

" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. "

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" One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. "

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" My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age. "

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