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Sin is a gravitation.

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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a ...more

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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering b...more

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentleme...more

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I see black light (his last words)

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More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

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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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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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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.

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Thought is the labour of the intellect reverie is its pleasure.

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Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

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To love beauty is to see light.

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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I ...more