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" The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. "

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" Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "

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

" Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. "

" When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. "

" To love is to act. "

" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "

" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "

" The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. "

" Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. "

" There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. "

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

" Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh. "

" He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. "

" Despotism is a long crime. "

" 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. "

" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "

" 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. "

" Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. "

" Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. "

" Many great actions are committed in small struggles. "

" 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. "

" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

" Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. "

" To love beauty is to see light. "

" An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "

" The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. "

" 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. "