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" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
Victor Hugo
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" Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. "
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" Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. "
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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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" But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. "
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" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "
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" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "
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" The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. "
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" Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. "
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" Liberation is not deliverance. "
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" He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. "
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" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "
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" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "
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" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "
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" He who opens a school door, closes a prison. "
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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
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" Many great actions are committed in small struggles. "
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" Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. "
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Minds
" I'm religiously opposed to religion. "
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" Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. "
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" Those who live are those who fight. "
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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. "
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" Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. "
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" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "
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" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "
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Right
" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "
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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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