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" The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring. "

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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. "

" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "

" 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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" Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. "

" Those who live are those who fight. "

" A war between Europeans is a civil war. "

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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.' "

" Many great actions are committed in small struggles. "

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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. "

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

" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "

" There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. "

" I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. "

" When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. "

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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. "

" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "

" 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. "

" Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. "

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" 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. "