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If there is a God who uses us and makes his saints out of such material as we are, the devil too may have his ambitions: he may dream of training even...more

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She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

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She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in th...more

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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. I...more