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"Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter."
"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
"I'm religiously opposed to religion."
"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
"Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns."
"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!"
"Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity."
"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children."
"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
"Those who do not weep, do not see."
"The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity."
"It is by suffering that human beings become angels."
"So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight."
"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful."
"Toleration is the best religion."
"Those who live are those who fight."
"Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma."
"In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none."
"God knows better than we do what we need."
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."