"The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth."
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"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
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"The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities."
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"A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance."
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"The wise man does not grow old, but ripens."
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"God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love."
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"Morality is truth in full bloom."
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"Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life."
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"To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God."
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"A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been."
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"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
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"I think, therefore I doubt."
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"It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty."
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"When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison."
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"...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain."
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"And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness."
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"The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity."
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
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"You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman."
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"Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)"
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