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" When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. "
Victor Hugo
Dictatorship
Right
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" Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. "
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" One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. "
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" A war between Europeans is a civil war. "
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" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
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" Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. "
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" Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. "
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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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" 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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Always
" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "
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" A library implies an act of faith. "
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" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "
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" A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. "
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He
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" Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. "
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" Those who live are those who fight. "
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Those
" An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "
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Come
Whose
" Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. "
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Short
" Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. "
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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. "
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" Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? "
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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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" He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. "
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" Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. "
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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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