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" It is by suffering that human beings become angels. "
Victor Hugo
Beings
Angels
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" The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. "
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" We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. "
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" One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "
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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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" Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. "
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" Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. "
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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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" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "
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" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "
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" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "
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Man
" 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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Great
Privilege
" There is nothing like a dream to create the future. "
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" Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. "
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Triumphs
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" Stupidity talks, vanity acts. "
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Talks
" One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. "
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Hardest
Almost
" To love another person is to see the face of God. "
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See
God
" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "
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Sacred
Wisdom
" No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. "
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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "
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" The ox suffers, the cart complains. "
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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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" The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised. "
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