"Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats."
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"At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good."
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"The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses."
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"Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal."
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"Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?"
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"The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn."
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"Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night."
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"There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness."
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"Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves."
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"A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables"
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"The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up."
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"She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced."
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"Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. '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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"At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!"
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"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so."
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"His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed."
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"She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger."
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"The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows."
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"Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice."
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"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing."
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