"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art."
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"The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast."
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"I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator."
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"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
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"In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men."
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"When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
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"God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool."
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"We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination."
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"God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door."
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"To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul."
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"One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant."
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"Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God."
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"If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be."
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"The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real"
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"The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God."
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"I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World."
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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning."
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"Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament."
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"Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise."
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