"So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use."
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"One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water."
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"Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."
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"In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge."
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"Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less."
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"With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators."
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"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand."
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"God became man, granted. The devil became a woman."
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"A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed."
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"The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great."
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"I tried. But I feel that I haven't given utterance to the thousandth part of what lies within me. When I go to the grave I can say as others have said, "I have finished my day's work." But I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight, but opens on the dawn."
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"Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow."
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"Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold"
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"To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
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"It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit."
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"To have lied is to have suffered."
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"The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you."
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"He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen."
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"Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower."
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"In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death."
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