"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Puns are the droppings of soaring wits."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns."
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"Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?"
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"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
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"Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity."
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"Not being heard is no reason for silence."
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"Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God."
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"When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
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"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
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"As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"Freedom begins where it ends ignorance."
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"If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head."
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"Caution is the eldest child of wisdom."
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"Inspiration and genius -one and the same."
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"Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies."
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