"Loving is half of believing."
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"...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here."
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"To think of shadows is a serious thing."
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"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."
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"As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad."
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"Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights."
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"What love commences can be finished by God alone."
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"It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also."
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"At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner."
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"M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think."
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"Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres."
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"We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing."
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"On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
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"Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry."
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"The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world."
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"There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit."
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"Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw."
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"by making himself a priest made himself a demon."
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"The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."
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"True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do."
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