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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but tha...more

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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Those who do not weep, do not see.

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Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilizati...more

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He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

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where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

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He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having...more

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When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

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Why, there's the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, moonlight, my friends, women, the beautiful architecture of Paris to study, three big books t...more

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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that ...more

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

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No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the his...more

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)