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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

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They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

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Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards ...more

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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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At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelm...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

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Right is just and true.

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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is rea...more