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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
Victor Hugo
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" What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French. "
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" Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. "
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" 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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" Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left. "
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" 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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" 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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" The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. "
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" One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. "
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" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "
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" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "
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" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "
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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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" It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. "
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