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" No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. "

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

" 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. "

" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "

" 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. "

" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "

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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. "

" The learned man knows that he is ignorant. "

" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "

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

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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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" It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. "