"True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery."
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"When the heart is dry the eye is dry."
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"Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great."
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"They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness."
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"We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so."
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"Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle."
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"Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason."
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"Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought."
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"To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them."
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"Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)"
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"Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?"
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"The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world."
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"Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy."
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"Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment."
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"He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail."
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"A sewer is a cynic. It tells All."
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"Are you afraid of the good you might do?"
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"As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere."
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"Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
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"I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living."
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