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" He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. "

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" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "

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" Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. "

" 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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" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "

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" Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. "

" 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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" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "

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" A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. "

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" Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. "

" 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. "

" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "

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" Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. "

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" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "

" Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. "