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His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

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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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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and br...more

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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

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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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Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of me...more

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He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.