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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and i...more

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

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Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night!

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To love another person is to see the face of God.

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Love is the only future God offers.

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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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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

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Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.

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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he rea...more

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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made ...more

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He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkne...more

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Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

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What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and ...more

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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they...more