"There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height."
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"The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry."
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"Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance."
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"Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms."
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"She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved."
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"How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself."
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"For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown."
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"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman."
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"Art needs no spur beyond itself."
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"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive."
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"The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage."
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"Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger."
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"God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought."
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"Popularity? It's glory's small change."
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"Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls."
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"M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist."
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"Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."
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"People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them."
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"I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?"
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"Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal."
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