"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
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"Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
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"Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
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"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
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"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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"A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars."
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"Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing."
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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
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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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"The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring."
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"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."
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"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."
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"It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life."
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"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."
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"The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end."
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"Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity."
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"Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."
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