"That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven."
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"It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!"
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"Be happy without picking flaws."
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"Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."
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"This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul."
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"Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it."
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"First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it."
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"Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."
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"The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts."
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"To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment."
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"The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head."
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"Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche"
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"To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!"
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"Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric."
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"Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!"
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"Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity."
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"Foppery is the egotism of clothes."
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"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
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"Who among us has not sought peace in a song?"
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"A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man."
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