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" Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. "

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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.' "

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

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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. "

" Despotism is a long crime. "

" A great artist is a great man in a great child. "

" 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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" 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 am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "

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" Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. "