Quotes by Victor Hugo

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Art for art's sake can be beautiful, but art for progress is even more beautiful. A few art lovers, attached to a concern that otherwise has its own dignity and nobility, reject this formula: art for progress, the beautiful useful, fearing that its useful will not deform the beautiful... The useful, however, is far from limiting the sublime, amplifies it... How so? Would art lose its value by becoming more inclusive? Not. An extra service means an extra beauty...

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A poet is... a world enclosed in a man.

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A new people needs a new art.

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Thus the purpose of art is almost divine; to resurrect, if it is history; to create, if it's poetry...

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Art browses the ages, browses nature, searches the chronicles, strives to reproduce the reality of facts, especially that of morals and characters...

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The theater is an optical point. Everything that exists in the world, in history, in life, in man, everything must and can be reflected in himself.

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Ambition is easily confused with vocation.

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Diamonds are found only in the dark recesses of the earth, and truths are found only in the depths of thought.

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What is true is absolutely true, truth in itself is one; identical with himself, whatever the beings who perceive him: men, monsters, angels or gods.

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I like to be popular: that is happiness. But I want to be useful: this is a duty.

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Nothing is enough for love. She has a share of happiness and wants paradise, she has a share of paradise and wants all heaven. O lovers! All this is in your love. So find it!

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A true love knows no satiety. Being entirely spiritual, she cannot get cold.

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Illusion is the main basis of dreams; if you deprive love of illusion, you will deprive it of food.

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Ideas are rare game in the forest of words.

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Fill the gap of ignorance and you will destroy the nest of crime.

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There are two ways to attract the audience to the theater: with the sublime or with sincerity. The sublime conquers the masses, sincerity bribes the individual.

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Debt is the beginning of slavery, nay, worse than slavery, for a creditor is more unyielding than a slave-owner: he will possess not only the body, but also the dignity, and may, if need be, insult you.

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Brutal manifestations of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, it can be seen that humanity has been shaken well, but has moved forward.

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Gaze at a star for two reasons: because it shines and because it is unfathomable. But beside you lies a gentler glow and a deeper mystery: a woman.

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The greatness of a people is not measured by number, just as the greatness of a man is not measured by his stature; the only measure is his intellectual development and moral level

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The world's greatest poets emerged after great social disasters.

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In a foreign country, a traveler is a bag of money, which everyone is trying to empty faster.

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We are most like our own fantasies. Everyone's dream is like their own nature.

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The aristocracy prides itself on what women find embarrassing - old age; but women and aristocracy also harbor the same illusion of self-preservation.

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Thought is the activity of the mind, dreaming is pleasure. To replace a thought with a dream is to mix poison with food.

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The foundations laid for man from childhood are like letters cut into the bark of a young tree, which grow with it, becoming an indispensable part of it.

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English! You are a great people, nay more - you are a great crowd. Your punches are more beautiful than sword strikes. You have a big appetite. You are a nation that eats others.

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Every man has three characters: that which is attributed to him, that which he attributes to himself, and finally, that which he has in reality.

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Vanity is a terrible power that works within us and against us.

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The creator of a book is its author, the creator of its destiny is society.

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Laughter is like the sun: it banishes winter from a man's face.

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The greatest happiness in life is the belief that you are loved.

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Revolution is like waves in which it is not good to be either foam or mud.

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Even if universal suffrage has its dark sides, it is still the only way for rational government, for it represents a greater power than brute force.

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Moving forward, science is constantly denying itself.

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And either set it in motion or crush it in its path.

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Progress, tireless, turns its wheels.

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The crimes of authorities cannot be attributed to those over whom they rule: governments are sometimes thugs, but peoples - never.

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Poetry does not lie in the form of thoughts, but in the thoughts themselves.

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Popularity is fame on a penny.

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Ignorance drives us to experiment. Ignorance is receptive to dreaming, and inquisitive dreaming is a power... If Columbus had known cosmography better, he would not have discovered America.

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Pray, cry! The word gives birth to mind, the song gives birth to light.

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Oh come love me, you are the soul, I am the heart.

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When two loving hearts grow old, what a deep, devout happiness comes to them! Love! heavenly Phrygian! oh pure chain of souls! It retains its radiance even if its flame is extinguished.

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He who laughs forgets. What a benefactor of mankind is he who distributes oblivion!

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The ten-year-old defied all odds on the rocks of Portland. With the gale that took the ship away, with the deep that deprived him of escape, with the gaping void that made him retreat, with the earth that denied him his shelter, with the sky that hid its stars from him, with the relentless loneliness, the dark darkness, the sea , heaven, infinity with all its violence and mystery.

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He stood his ground in misery, deprivation, storm, howling wind, disaster and death, he stood upright; then Fate smiled.

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The relieved wreck continued to sink, albeit more slowly. The desperate situation could neither be helped nor alleviated. They did everything they could.

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Each person can experience a different end of the world in their own destiny. This is what we call despair.

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Alone: ​​this word is clear with death.

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In important situations, the instinct of the animal is incredibly similar to the all-encompassing intellect. In this case, the animal behaves like a sane moonsick.

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A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.

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When a woman talks to you, pay attention to what her eyes are saying.

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If fate opens a door for us, it always closes another.

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Love: the greeting of angels flying to the stars.

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The compression of the universe in a single human creation, the expansion of a single human creation all the way to God: this is love.

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The bow of disappointment flies a person towards reality with a gloomy force.

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How sad the soul is when it is sad because of love!

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Little troubles of a thousand thorns, almost more prickly than despair. It is hateful to suffer misfortune little by little, and fight step by step with completed facts for lost ground. One can bear the weight of bad luck, but not its dust.

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You have to be careful about daydreams that take over. Daydreaming is mysterious and subtle, like fragrance. It is related to the thought as the fragrance is to the tube rose. Sometimes a toxic thought spreads and penetrates us like smoke. We can poison ourselves with both dreams and flowers. Intoxicating and classy, ​​a terrible death. Wrong thinking is the suicide of the soul. Poisoning. Your fantasy attracts, flatters, deceives, entangles and in the end makes you an accomplice. He involves you in the game of the loser with a conscience. It charms you. Then it destroys you.

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However, our will plays a small role in waiting; we wait even if we don't want to; as a result of the situational power of our actions, we persist even when the meaning has passed, and we wait aimlessly for a while. Vain peeping, foolish standing - who doesn't know it? - when we uselessly waste our precious time, staring at something that has disappeared once and for all. And yet we stubbornly wait for it back. We don't know why we're still standing where we are, but we wouldn't move for the world. What we started with zeal, we continue with patience. Excruciating tenacity, tiring you to death.

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The ancients compared the female body to marble: this image is completely false. The beauty of the body is that it is not marble. Because it trembles, trembles, blushes, bleeds. Hard, without stiffness. White, but not cold. She shivers and faints. The body is life; marble is death.

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Countries have their crises like mountains have their fullness. A word spoken too loudly sometimes causes an avalanche.

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The happy light of the plain flashes, the grass blooms, the foliage rustles. - Man! Do not be afraid! nature knows the secret and smiles.

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Being smart and being wise are two different things.

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We cannot judge a thing if we do not know it.

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He who dreamed, continues to dream. He does not renounce the seductive depth, the unfathomable attraction, he ventures into the forbidden region, he tries to understand the incomprehensible, to see the invisible; he returns to it again and again, resolutely exerts himself, takes one step forward, then another; this is how he penetrates into the unknown to find there the amazing abundance of infinite thoughts.

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There is nothing more poignant than bending under the unknown. We are the suffering part of the events. Life is a perpetual happening; we just suffer under it. We never know where chance will suddenly strike us. Disaster and happiness welcome us and then disappear like an unexpected visitor.

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It is a beautiful thing to carve a statue and give it life; but it is even more beautiful to shape a human soul and fill it with truth.

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How empty it is when the being who alone fills the whole world is away! Oh, how true it is that the one we love is deified! It would not be surprising if God were jealous of him, if it were not certain that the father of all created the world for the soul, and the soul for love.

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The lips of scientists who compliment each other: a vessel full of honeyed bile.

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Civilization everywhere begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy.

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All great people's movements - whatever their cause or purpose - ultimately dig a bed for the spirit of freedom.

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A kindled fire is cold.

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Women's instincts meet and come to an agreement sooner than men's reason.

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A single drop of wine is enough to turn a full glass of water red. And to change the mood of a group of pretty women, all you need is the appearance of an even prettier woman - especially if there is only one man in the group.

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Oh, how empty science rings, when a person, with a head overheated with passion, desperately bangs on its door!

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If a person is already doing bad things, do them completely. It's madness to stop midway in contagiousness. Along with extreme sin comes bulbous, raging pleasure.

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Evil thoughts are unrelenting and want to become action.

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For a mother who has lost a child, the first day never ends. This pain does not fade with time. No matter how worn out, no matter how faded the mourning clothes are, the blackness of the heart will never disappear.

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The owl has no business in the lark's nest.

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The human heart... can only accommodate a certain amount of despair. Even the sponge, once it has absorbed itself, will not take in a single drop of water, even if the whole sea rushes over it.

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Intellect, morality and character exist in a certain parallel in the individuality of all of us, and they continue to develop with unbroken continuity, if the great tumults of life do not turn them in another direction.

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The king only gives to the people what the people snatch from his hands.

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One trembles in anger as much as in fear.

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My desires always wander towards you! Accept the shadow and fire of my every day! Welcome, unsuspectingly and intoxicatingly, he lights up to a flattering song and glides to you!

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Reading is like eating.

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Satan is slandered. He didn't tempt Eva. Eve tempted Satan. The woman started. Lucifer was calmly walking in the garden, noticed the woman and instantly became Satan.

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It is the desire of every artist to once express himself perfectly. When a toad gives birth to a toad, it creates perfection. Don't you believe? Do it afterwards.

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Gold loses fourteen hundredths of its thickness every year as a result of rubbing. This fact is called fading. It follows that out of the 1,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 of gold pieces of gold in circulation on Earth, one million are lost every year. This golden million turns to dust, flies away, floats in atoms, is breathed in, burdens, changes, impresses and weighs down the conscience, mingles with the souls of the rich and the poor; it makes them arrogant, these wild.

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The favor of the people ebbs and flows forever and ever.

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Nothing promotes daydreaming more than following a pretty woman, even though you don't know where she's going.

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In the whim of voluntarily renouncing our free will and submitting to the whim of someone who has no idea about it: playful independence mingles with blind obedience. It is a sort of transition between slavery and freedom.

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Nothing spurs a person to adventure like a flat wallet.

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Philosophy includes everything, the philosopher includes everyone.

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The trunk of the tree always remains unchanged, but the foliage grows capriciously over it.

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Remembrance torments the jealous the most.

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The one-eyed is much more imperfect than the blind, because he knows what he lacks.

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Nowhere can the eye of the soul find more brightness and more darkness than in man: it cannot rest on something more terrifying and more complicated, more mysterious and more infinite.

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You who suffered because you loved, love even more! Deadly love: life itself!

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Friendship is nothing more than a brotherly relationship between a man and a woman. Two souls come close to each other, but do not merge: like two fingers on one hand. This is friendship.

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Love means two people: two and yet one. A man and a woman merge into one angel. This is heaven.

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No matter how we drill and carve the mysterious boulder of our life, the dark vein of fate always emerges.

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In a young man, the first symptom of true love is lack of courage, in a girl, recklessness. This is surprising, although the explanation is very simple: men and women try to get closer to each other, and in such a way that each takes on the other's qualities.

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Every village has a torch - the teacher, and the one who extinguishes it - the priest.

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A few rocks do not stop the river. Among the human resistances, the events continue and do not turn back.

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The word does not express the feelings well. Emotions are always new, words are always old, so emotions cannot be expressed.

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Silly thing! Let's not think about it! he said. And since then, I've been thinking about it forever.

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What people usually lack is not strength, but will.

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There is only one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: an idea whose time has come.

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There is no such thing as a small nation. The size of a nation is not determined by its population, just as the size of a person is not a function of his body weight.

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The book is a cold but sure friend.

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My only job on this earth is love.

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Love is a fervent oblivion of all that is outside of it.

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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, takes deep root in our whole being and often continues to grow green on the ruins of the heart.

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To love someone is to shine through.

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The void in the heart cannot be closed with a plug.

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Fate is like a crossroads, the choice of direction is always terrifying.

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Marriage is like vaccination: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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There is no greater danger than to stop working; you get used to it. It's easy to quit it, it's hard to get used to it again.

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Great people are those who felt a lot, lived a lot; and sometimes, in a few years, one lives many lives.

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Extreme pain, like extreme pleasure, is a feeling so wild that it cannot last long. The human heart cannot live long in extremes.

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Humans also need emotions, because without tenderness and love, life is just a kind of insensitive machine.

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The adversities of fate often have the characteristic that - no matter how perfect or cool we are - they bring our inner human nature into the sunlight and force it to emerge.

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The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that someone loves us, that someone loves us for us, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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For every uphill, there is a downhill.

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He who is blind and in love is doubly blind. Such dreams; dreams are the bread of dreams: whoever deprives love of its dreams deprives it of its nourishment. Man uses all passions for his imagination: both physical and moral passion.

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A dropped word can destroy a lot. It happens many times, the person doesn't even know what happened, the spoken word wounds the heart, and it slowly drains. The lover suddenly sees that his happiness is waning. There is nothing scarier than leaking from a cracked vase.

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There is nothing in which men scrutinize each other's affairs with such eager interest as that which they have nothing to do with.

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Animals are nothing more than the formulas of our virtues and vices wandering before our eyes, the visible ghosts of our psyche. God lets us see them to make us think.

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The human face is shaped by consciousness and life and consists of mysterious folds.

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Music expresses everything that cannot be expressed in words, yet it cannot remain unsaid.

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Have courage for life's big sorrows and patience for life's little sorrows. And when you have finished your daily task, rest in peace.

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Be like a bird in the sky... resting on a fragile twig, experiencing the gaping depths below, yet singing joyfully because it trusts in the strength of its wings.

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He struggled in vain; the thread of his memory and consciousness was broken. And doubting everything, tossing and turning between the things he saw and his own feelings, he asked himself this insoluble question: - If I am, is this also there? And if it is, am I too?

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Humanity has never had an idea so important that it has not been written in stone.

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In first love, the soul is taken long before the body, later the body is taken before the soul, and sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

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Your task is not to chase love, but only to search and find your inner limits that you have set up against it.

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What they say about rulers also applies to waves. We are their subjects and prey. We must obey their frenzied will.

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Sleep. Fate pursued him with a thousand troubles, And yet he lived as long as he had an angel by his side. Died. The explanation is so simple: When the sun goes down, night begins.

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The veil of death must be the shame of the grave. There is no veil here, no shame. This is cynical, outright rot. It is reckless to death to show his work so openly. He violates serene nature if he works in his workshop outside the grave. This creature has been looted. Plundering a Plundered: Merciless ending. There was no more marrow in his bones, no intestines in his belly, no voice in his throat. The corpse is a pocket that death turns inside out and empties. If it ever had an individuality, where is it now? Maybe it's still there, but it's terrifying to even think about it. Something swaying, something chained around, can you imagine anything more mournful in the dark?

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He has no eyes, but he sees everything.

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He who does not cry does not see.

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Love me! Serve! Help! Fight! Suffer! - the soul beckons...

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Free expression of opinion makes our situation easier. The wolf is comforted by howling, the sheep by the wool, the forest by the ears, the woman by love, the wise man by the golden saying.

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Anyone who has ever lived alone knows how natural it is to talk privately. Swallowed words bite you. We feel relieved when we can call out our pain. Anyone who speaks out loud alone is, as it were, conversing with the God who lives within us.

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Being holy is an exception; to be true - rule. You can be wrong, you can make mistakes, you can sin, but be true!

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The lonely man is the dwarf of the savage who is tolerated by society.

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A smile means approval, a laugh is often a round rejection.

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What is said about a person, whether true or false, often plays as important a role in his life, especially in the development of his destiny, as what he does.

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As speech is, so is action.

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Don't ask for the name of the person asking for a night's accommodation. The one who is in need of shelter is most stressed by his name.

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Women play with their beauty like boys play with their pocket knives. They hurt themselves with it.

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The soul helps the body and lifts it up at certain moments. It is the only bird that raises its cage.

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If someone loves you or has been loved, get over it. Don't ask for more. He would in vain wish for another gem among the dark folds of life. To love is to become perfect.

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Everyone walks alone in the night towards his light.

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Why do they say: in love? You should say: obsessed. The devil only possesses someone exceptionally, usually women disturb a person. Everyone loses themselves for a while because of them. There is no greater witch than the beautiful woman. The true name of love: captivity.

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Time is the architect, the people are the masons.

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He knew himself to be innocent and put up with everything. He didn't complain. He who is blameless does not blame.

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Sometimes the lucky outcome of large enterprises is due to luck, sometimes to trickery.

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Our best friends often fail us.

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Pride is always followed by corruption and shame.

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Rigor only hardens the soul.

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I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

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What man arranges... is overturned by circumstances.

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If you came from hell, I'll go there with you. I understand him anyway. Your hell is my heaven, your face is brighter than God's! Tell me, do you really not need me?

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There is nothing surprising in the fact that even the strongest and most resistant person becomes dizzy as a result of an unexpected turn of fate. The unexpected sometimes hits a person in the head like a log hits an ox. (...) Nothing is as cruel as an upset of the balance.

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The devil looped the end of the twine tied on my wing onto your feet.

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, these are the dogmas of peace and harmony. Why do they need to be dressed in such terrifying robes?

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The freedom of a fellow citizen ends where the freedom of another fellow citizen begins.

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We need a dictator. Robespierre, you know very well that I am looking for a dictator. (...) The only solution is dictatorship. Let's embrace the dictatorship. The three of us represent the revolution, the three of us are the heads of Cerberus.

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The most obvious symptom of love is tenderness, which sometimes becomes almost unbearable.

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He's not a ghost, he's human. (...) Sensitive flesh and nerves. He has a brain and thinks, he has a heart and loves; it has a soul and hopes. After all, his whole sin was that he hoped too much.

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As long as people live together, existence is bearable. The lonely person feels that he can't take it any longer. He gives up on it. This is the first stage of despair. Later one understands that the fulfillment of one's duty is nothing more than a series of indulgences. Man faces death, faces life, then gives up. But blood comes from indulgence.

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Eden is in the spiritual, not in the material. And being free and true-life depends only on us. Serenity resides in the heart. Our eternal spring also lives inside us.

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Man works on his home, and his home is the land. It spoils, displaces, destroys, knocks down, razes to the ground, undermines, mines, excavates, excavates, crushes, crushes to dust, destroys some, destroys others, and builds by destroying. He does not hesitate even when a huge mass, block, or obstacle comes in his way, he is not afraid of the authority of the shining material, nor of the majesty of nature. If he gets close to the great secret of creation, he will besiege it. The form of God that can be destroyed, tempts him, attacks infinity with a hammer in his hand.

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Above the revolutionary reality is the human reality.

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You want to help the needy. I want to erase misery.

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Oh, you were that girl... Terrified, drunk, mesmerized, I only looked at you. I looked at you until I shuddered with terror, I felt that doom was taking hold of me.

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This is all we gypsies need: wandering and love.

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This kind of love chat is pretty monotonous. I love you over and over again. For an indifferent listener, it is an exceedingly bleak and boring musical phrase if there is no cipher in it.

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- This is going to end badly. - But at least the beginning will be good.

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Because there is a law here for life and destiny, because the moonless night will find the moon, because every deep low tide creates a new wave, because the wind needs the tree, the leaves need a breeze, because after so much pain you gave me a smile, because in passing the winter brought the spring!

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A flame shines in the eyes of young people, but the eyes of the old shine with light.

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So what is above legality? - Fairness.

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Master, this is the difference between our utopias. You want to make the barracks mandatory, I want the school. When you think of man, you dream of the soldier; I am a fellow citizen. You want people to be afraid, I want them to think.

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Everything limits man, but nothing stops him. He has one answer: he crosses. The line of impossibility is drawn back more and more.

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The universe is raw material. The world created by God is a blank canvas for man.

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Man inflicts a deep wound on nature. The facial wound caused by human labor can be seen on the divine creation. It seems that man has a mission to do certain things. He appropriates creation for humanity. That's his role. He is quite daring, one could almost say quite ungodly. Cooperation is sometimes offensive. The yew-flowered, eternally dying man confronts the infinite. Man opposes his siege to the tides of nature, the elements that desire each other, the surrounding phenomena, the mighty forces flowing in the depths. He also says his no more!

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It is important to keep a firm grip on utopia, to squeeze it into the yoke of reality, to surround it with facts. We have to turn the abstract idea into a tangible idea. It may lose its beauty in this way, but it gains by becoming useful.

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Reasonableness is nothing but reason itself. Feeling is often conscience. One comes from man, the other from above. Therefore, there is less light in the feeling, but more power. And yet, what power there is in strict reason.

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What a battlefield is the human soul! We are willingly at the mercy of our thoughts, these gods, these monsters, these giants. These warring monsters sometimes crush the human soul.

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Behind the cloud that casts its shadow on us, there is the star that casts its light on us.

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The bee is like the housewife, she squeals even when she sings.

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Nothing is so similar to the human soul as the bee. It flies from flower to flower as thought flies from star to star, gathering honey as the human soul gathers light.

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It's not worth winning if you can't exercise mercy afterwards. Let us be enemies to our enemies in battle, and brothers to them after victory.

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Do not accuse those who are not responsible for things, because since when is the doctor's sin the disease?

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Nature is merciless; he refuses to withdraw his flowers, clouds of fragrance, music, and sunshine because of human meanness; it strikes man down with the contrast of divine beauty and social ugliness. He does not pardon; a person has to endure the beauty of a butterfly's wing, a bird's song, he has to endure that in the midst of murders, revenge, and barbarism, the holy beauties of nature stumble upon him (...). Man breaks, man crushes, man kills, man impregnates; but summer remains summer, the lily remains a lily, the star remains a star.

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The future has many names: the weak call it unattainable, the coward calls it unknown, the brave call it opportunity.

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The pickaxe of man is more frequent than the iron teeth of time. Man is a rodent. Under his rule, everything changes, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Sometimes it distorts, sometimes it ennobles.

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Anyone who stands head and shoulders above his century and is progress itself in every sense is no longer criticized: he is hated.

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Science is incessant progress, erasing its own achievements. Prolific deletions...! Science is a ladder... poetry is a soar. Masterpieces of art are eternal. Dante does not erase Homer.

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A heart that withdraws into itself cannot pour out its emotions, so it is tormented; it has no way to open up, so it closes in on itself. Visions sprout from this, assumptions, speculations, budding novels, longed-for adventures, imaginary castles in the air, buildings that are built in the deep darkness of the soul, gloomy and mysterious apartments, where passions immediately take up residence.

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To err is human, to wander is Parisian.

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In romance novels, the "single twinkle in the eye" has been so hackneyed that in the end it has almost become a joke. Nowadays, hardly anyone would dare to say about a couple that "seeing and falling in love with each other was the work of a moment". But that's how people fall in love with each other, and that's the only way. What else contributes is all a contribution and only comes later. There is no more tangible reality than the elemental shock of two souls when this spark snaps into each other.

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All good qualities grow into some diminution; the thrifty is close to the miser, the generous is related to the spendthrift, the waist is almost the equal of the braggart; in the very pious there is already a little sanctimoniousness; there are just as many vices in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak.

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Laughter is the sun that banishes the wintry gloom from one's face.

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There is something about mothers that lies beneath and rises above common sense. A mother has an instinct. The infinite and unpredictable will of creation lives in him and guides his actions. Complete blindness with acuity.

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Drama is a mirror in which nature is reflected.

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A long whistle weaves across his smoky silver forehead, slender, Paris of roofs and bells.

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If we love, or have loved, that is enough. Let's not wish for anything anymore. No other pearl can be found in the dark folds of life's shell.

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The future is just a beggar's ghost, it promises everything and has nothing.

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People get used to the poison.

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A decrease in stupidity is called progress.

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The most beautiful years of a life that a person has not yet experienced.

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The invasion of an army can be resisted, but the invasion of ideas is impossible.

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Is there anyone who has not noticed the special ability of the soul, that it can reason almost calmly even in the most stormy and extreme situations? This is precisely where the miracle of its unity, complicated by omnipresence, lies.

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Virtue cannot coexist with sin without losing its sanctity.

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Bad luck makes a man, and good luck makes a monster.

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Duty is the son of right; he lives under our roofs like a majestic serious guest.

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There is something stronger than all the armies in the world: the timely idea.

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Nothing evokes a memory like a scent.

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There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

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Napoleon died with the word army on his lips. Lamarque's last words were home.

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Sociable people ignite their spirit when the zenith ignites its stars.

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My friends, beware; be compassionate to women.

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There are no two people who more easily make a deep impression on each other and fuse together than an old priest and an old soldier. Basically, the two are the same kind of people. One sacrificed himself for his earthly country, the other for his heavenly country; there is no other difference between them.

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The more blinded (...) the passion is, the more timeless it is. And it is most tenacious when it has the least sense.

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Our fathers saw in Napoleon only the man who honored them with a shoulder fringe, our mothers saw in Bonaparte only the man who took their sons from them.

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In the time before the age of book printing, the Reformation would have been considered a simple apostasy; revolutionized book printing.

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On the day when a woman crosses your path who radiates brightness as soon as she passes: you are done, you have fallen in love. There is only one thing left for you: think about him so stubbornly that he is forced to think about you too.

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We used to stare at the star for two reasons, because it shines and because it is inscrutable. In our immediate vicinity, however, there is a much more fascinating and much more profound secret: the woman.

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The future is much more a matter of the heart than of the intellect. To love: here is the only emotion that can embrace and fill eternity. The infinite needs that which is inexhaustible.

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Certain thoughts are like prayer. There are moments in which - whatever our posture - the soul falls to its knees.

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It is enough to catch a fleeting glimpse of someone's smile under a white silk hat with a purple veil for our souls to enter the palace of dreams.

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The fearlessness of youth comes from inexperience.

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Be a philosopher. He who is wise is invulnerable. As you see me, I never cried. I owe this to my wisdom. Do you think that if I wanted to cry, I wouldn't have had the chance?

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At first I loved women, then animals. Now I like stones. The stone is as much fun as the animal or the woman, and there is no deceit in it.

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What love starts, only God can finish.

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Do you know how weird that is? I live in darkness. There is someone who has gone and taken the sunlight with them.

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Providence deals very sparingly with great men. He doesn't waste them, he doesn't squander them. He sends them at the right moment, withdraws them at the right moment, and puts them in charge only of such events as they are capable of.

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You shouldn't look at everything through the prism of poetry. Poetry is one of those witty glass lenses that magnify the image of objects.

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Let time work. The child shares his mother's views, the man will follow his father's views.

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Happy is he who meditates on eternal things.

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I met a very poor young man in the street who was in love. His hat was old, his clothes were battered, he had holes in his elbows, water ran into his shoes, and the brightness of the stars filtered into his soul.

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Oh, woe to him who loved only body, form, appearance! Death deprives him of all this. Try to love the soul: you will find it again.

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Love is the heavenly breath of the air of the Garden of Eden.

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Lying next to each other, in the same grave, hand in hand, and gently caressing each other's fingers from time to time: that would be enough for me for eternity.

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The artist sees only art from the world, and the world only in art.

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The feeling of motherhood cannot be explained, nor can you argue with it. What makes the mother majestic is precisely that there is something animal in her to a certain degree. The maternal instinct is divinely animal. The mother is no longer a woman, but a female.

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Committing a crime and bragging about it: this is history.

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I don't deny the devil. Belief in the devil is the opposite of belief in God. One reinforces the other. Anyone who doesn't believe a little in the devil doesn't believe much in God either. He who believes in the sun must also believe in the shadow. The devil is the shadow of God. What is the night? Proof of the day.

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Sometimes uncertainty fills our souls and tempts us to take night walks and wander under the stars. Youth is always waiting for a miracle. That's why he likes to wander aimlessly at night.

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He looked at it and saw nothing else. Such is love: a person is carried away by his thoughts for a few moments; the beloved woman arrives, and immediately everything that does not concern her disappears, and she has no idea that sometimes she erases a whole world from us.

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True love never gets tired. He's full of soul, so he doesn't get cold. The glowing charcoal is covered in ash, but not the star.

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Souls do not need eyes to see each other.

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Being is a deep secret, it makes the invisible divine, and another secret follows from it: trust. This is the only mystery of religions. But enough of this mystery. We do not see the indispensable heavenly power, but we feel it.

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He saw a bright light approaching him, which fate assigned to be a dream image, he saw a white cloud that took the form of a woman, a bright vision, in the depths of which a heart beat, and this half-cloud, half-woman phenomenon embraced him, the vision kissed him, and this heart he turned to her lovingly.

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Sincere gratitude is enough. Gratitude flies on wings where it needs to fly. Prayer knows its way better than you who pray. How many thought they were praying to Jupiter, when they were praying to Jehovah. How many believers trusting in amulets will be listened to by infinity! How many deniers do not realize that if they are good and sad, they are already begging God with this fact.

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Their happiness slowly rose to such a height where there is no more growth. One word expresses this situation: fulfillment. Happiness, like the sea, reaches its highest point. The only disturbing thing about perfect happiness is that the sea is flowing back.

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Nothing can touch us in two situations: all the way up and all the way down. The second case is at least as desirable as the first.

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There is no more hypocritical saying than when a person encourages himself like this: I want to know what I am holding on to. Basically, we don't want to know at all. We fear it. Contributing to the fear is some vague desire to find out the truth only as later as possible. We don't admit this to ourselves, but we would like to turn back, and if we ran too far ahead, we reproach ourselves.

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The most beautiful moments of lovers are silent. Love accumulates in the silence, and then quietly blossoms.

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In the violent inner storm of the soul, the thought flutters as if it were a liquid. It tosses here and there, swells, and sometimes makes the dull murmur of the waves. Tide, high tide, crest of wave, eddying, staggering before the reef, hail and shower, flashes of lightning behind parting clouds, barren thrashing of the moor, wild but soon collapsing rushes, terrible and wasted efforts, ghostly rising shipwrecks, shadows and confusions and all , what the infinite knows, man also has.

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Evil smokes before it ignites into sin: conscience suffocates in this smoke. Tempted decency is an involuntary nausea from hell. The stench of the unfolding depth awakens the strong and stuns the weak.

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Oblivion is transcribed parchment. Something happens, and the blurred notes emerge between the lines of awestruck memory.

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There is no prison more terrible than the infinity that opens before us.

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Habit is the strongest in love. All life is centered in it. That the stars rise every night: the custom of the universe. The universe is like a woman in love; the sun is his lover.

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They lived best for each other, loving each other. The heart is filled with love, like a divine balm that preserves its freshness. This is where the undisturbed presence of the loves that begin at the dawn of life and the eternal freshness of long-lasting great loves come from. This is the embalming of love.

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Nature embraced it as it embraces every wreck. He comforted her loneliness as she comforts all loneliness. Nature comes to the aid of all those who are abandoned. Where everything is lacking, he gives himself completely. He fills all the debris with flowers. It connects stones with flight and people with love.

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The crowd has many heads to think and many eyes to see; to the mass, which is surface, therefore superficial.

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The moment when the woman no longer counts the springs, but the winters, and dully resents the time that spoils her beauty is embarrassing. Women, whom he feels are other fragrant flowers, prick him like thorns, and from their freshness he feels only the sting. It was as if her colors had been robbed from her, as if her own beauty was withering so that the others' could shine brighter.

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Such are the inexhaustible dreams of the soul. Every misfortune, even at the most critical moment, shines through its darkness the wonderful rays of hope.

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The child quickly comes to terms with his experiences. The distant and blurred outlines of things - in them lies the depth of painful events - escape your attention. The limits of his weakness protect the child from too complicated emotions. He sees only the fact, but understands little of the secondary circumstances. A man is not satisfied with partial knowledge, that is enough for a child. The nature of life unfolds before him only later, when experience piles him up with facts. Then he will compare the groups of collected facts, his unfolded and increased meaning will become one, the memories of his youth - like the words buried behind the visible writing of the codes - will appear behind the passions, like the clues of logic, and what the child believed to be a vision becomes consistent in the man's brain . By the way, the experience is very different, and it turns out good or bad according to the nature of the person. Good people ripen, bad people rot.

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He just went forward, uncertain, and now completely lost. He had just been searching for something, now he was just running away. He wasn't hungry anymore, he wasn't cold, he was just afraid. One instinct superseded the other. His only thought was: escape, escape. From what? From everything. Life surrounded him with terrible walls on all sides. If he could escape the world, he would.

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It was said that he was also in the madhouse for a while. They honored him by considering him a fool, but then let him go, realizing that he was only a poet.

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To a soul that does not yet know itself, this first sight is like the appearance of dawn in the sky. This is the awakening of something radiant and unknown. There are no words to express the perilous charm of this unexpected brightness, which suddenly dimly shines into the worshipful darkness, and in which all the innocence of the present mingles with all the passion of the future. It is a kind of hesitant tenderness that happens to reveal itself and waits. A trap that innocence unconsciously sets, and in which it catches hearts, without wanting, without knowing. This is the virgin who looks like a woman. It is a rare case that a deep reverie does not arise wherever one of these glances falls. All purity and all flaming are condensed in this heavenly and fatal ray, which, even more than the most practiced winks of a coquettish woman, has the magical power of suddenly bursting forth from the depths of some soul that dark flower which is full of fragrance and full of poison, and whose name is love.

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What is death, if we think about it? Bad moment, customs barrier, where we cross from little to nothing. Kerkidász from Megalopolis was once asked if he would like to die. How I would like to die, he answered, because after my death I can meet all great people: Pythagoras among philosophers, Hekataios among historians, Homer among poets, Olympos among musicians.

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What if they hang me? Either the rope or other death; I mean the rope is not just any death. It is worthy of the sage who has wavered all his life; neither fish nor flesh, as the true doubting spirit is, a death complete with pyrrhonism and hesitation, which leaves man suspended between heaven and earth. A philosopher's death, and who knows, maybe this is what fate has chosen for me. It's a great thing to die as we lived.

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- Then why are you so attached to life? - Oh, I have a thousand reasons for it! - What kind of reasons, if I may ask? - What are they like? Well, the air, the sky, the morning, the evening, the moon, my vagabond friends, frolicking with the friends, studying the beautiful Parisian buildings, writing three thick books, one of which is against the bishop and his mills, I know what yet. Anaxagoras said that he was born to admire the sun. I am lucky enough to be with a flame from morning to night: myself, and that is extremely pleasant.

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The wind, the rain, the blizzard, the whirlwind are fighters fighting against each other, they can be defeated. You can face the storm without a weapon. We can object to violence, which sometimes turns its vulnerable side towards us, makes us hesitate or miss the blow. But we are powerless against peace. It is not vulnerable anywhere.

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Wolves have become sheep. Such transformations take place in the midst of spiritual battles. It happens that tigers lick the cross. When the gloomy gate is revealed, it is hard to believe, but not to believe: an impossibility. However imperfect the various religions of the human race may be, however baseless the faith may be, however divergent the contours of dogma may be from the contours of the imagined eternity, the soul trembles at the decisive moment. After life, something begins. The dying person feels the weight of this.

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Genius takes fate by the neck.

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They know that a pre-made plan rarely adapts to events. They cannot control contingencies in such a way as to treat them as they please. We cannot agree with fate in advance. Tomorrow is unspoken. Chance has no discipline. That's why they are waiting for the chance and without a long introduction, they are right next to him. They don't have a plan, a sketch, a pattern, they don't come ready-made before the unexpected. They jump headlong into the dark.

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A red-hot cauldron, locked in itself, boiling with rage, anger, silence and resentment, couldn't wait to burn Josiana. Never before had a man hated a woman like that for no reason. He did not sleep because of him, he cared about him day and night, he despised him and was furious because of him. Maybe he had a bit of a crush on her.

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The XV. on old maps of the 19th century, we can see wide, shapeless, empty areas on which these three words are painted: Hic sunt leones. Humans also have such gloomy areas. Passions hide and groan inside us somewhere, and it can also be said about the dark spots of our souls: lions roam here.

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You never know where the unexpected will come from. The depths of life are terrifying. There is no small hatred. Hate is always terrible. It preserves its greatness even in the smallest being and always remains complete. An elephant is in danger if an ant hates it.

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It's easy for the dwarf, if he wants to be taller than the giant, just sit on his shoulders. But the strange thing is that the giant allows it, and the ridiculous thing is that he even admires the dwarf's greatness. Oh, human stupidity!

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Marriage is not good for your complexion, it makes you age. The wedding is overwhelmingly simple. The registrar gives the woman to her husband, what a flat thing! The harshness of marriage creates a final situation, it deprives a person of his will, the possibility of choice, he has a vocabulary like grammar, he replaces inspiration with spelling, he degrades love into a written thesis, he destroys the mystery of life, the periodic, inevitable things become obvious - the undressed woman it is no longer a heavenly sight - it devalues ​​the rights of both the one who exercises it and the one who submits, it disturbs the charming balance of the strong gender and the powerful gender by tilting the scales. Because in marriage the master stands against his servant, where before the queen ruled over her slave. To make the bed prosaic to the point of propriety, can there be a harsher concept than this? Isn't it silly enough in itself that it's no longer a sin to love each other?

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The showdown to the death. At this fateful moment, we feel an enormous responsibility. What was is mixed with what will be. The past returns and enters the future. What we knew will be as mysterious as what we didn't know, and these two obscurities, one in which our mistakes rest, radiate together with the other in which our expectation lies. The mixing of the two obscurities shocks the dying person.

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The great cause of his life was his hatred of mankind. His hatred was unrelenting. He saw clearly that life is terrible and nothing but a series of misfortunes. Kings sit on the necks of the people, wars torment the kings, war rushes into plague, famine follows the plague, and the whole thing is dangerous stupidity. He saw clearly that the mere fact of existence was a punishment in itself. He saw that death is salvation, so when a sick person was brought to him, he healed him. He had heart boosters and potions that he could use to prolong the lives of Aggastians. He set the lame on their feet and struck them in the face: behold, I have set you on your feet. Well, just wander for a long time in the valley of mourning! If he saw a poor person who was already dying of hunger, he gave him his last scraps and muttered: Live, wretch! Gobble it up! Hold on long, I will not shorten your captivity! Then he rubbed his hands with satisfaction, saying: I will do all the evil I can to people.

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It can be a great feeling when a pink mouth pulls our soul from our body and builds its life from our blood!

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It seems that it is the law and the command of nature that a person rushes selflessly towards his found life, happiness, and love. Yes, if we are not trembling with excitement. Because the one who comes out of a cruel series of misfortunes crushed and crushed, even in his happiness, he doubts, considers, is cautious. He fears that he will corrupt the one he loves with his curse. As if his fate is contagious. And he approaches joy only cautiously. The gate of paradise is revealed again. But before entering, he stops and watches.

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The pain questions me. There is no judge who is as meticulous as the conscience that goes to trial with itself.

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Bad luck deals with us frighteningly quickly. So heavy you'd think it was moving slowly. Error. One would think of snow: cold, therefore frozen like winter, white, therefore motionless, like an eye patch. And how the snowman refutes all this.

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Despair is a cold calculator. He insists on the total amount. Nothing escapes his attention. It adds up to everything, and doesn't leave a single cent out of the calculation. He asks God to account for lightning strikes and needlesticks. You want to know what to do with your degree. He looks, weighs, calculates. On the outside, it is gloomy and cold, but underneath there is foaming fiery lava.

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At a certain level of terror, the person himself becomes terrible. He who is afraid of everything, eventually trembles at nothing. Kick the sphinx with your foot and it will attack the unknown.

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There are terrifying storms of the soul, in which heaven, earth, sun, night, life, death, everything is mixed up in one terrible horror. Reality loses its meaning. Unfathomable things crush a person. Nothingness turned into a storm, the sky faded, infinity emptied. We stand far from everything, we breathe death into ourselves, we thirst for stars.

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Of all the lava that the crater of the human mouth can spew, joy is the most destructive. No crowd can resist the temptation to do evil with glee. They are executed not only on blood banks. And whenever people gather together, there is always among them an executioner ready for anything, mockery. There is no punishment like being laughed at.

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The secret: mesh; if one eye is torn, the whole falls apart.

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In life, one loses loved ones one after another. A lot of pain is left behind. Fate has gifted us with many unbearable sufferings. And they are still surprised that old men talk a lot. Desperation speaks for them.

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Either he comes back or I leave. Since he can't come back, I have to go. It's good to die, it's not difficult, what goes out here, rekindles somewhere else. Life here on this earth is perpetual heartache. One cannot be unhappy forever. So we go up to the stars, get married, never separate, just love, love each other.

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Can good be bad at the same time? He who saves the wolf kills the lamb. He who heals an eagle's broken wing is also responsible for its talons.

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History has its truth, legend has its own. The reality of legends is of a different nature than the reality of history. The truths of legends come from tales that become reality. Anyway, history and legend have the same goal: to show the eternal man in the man of the moment.

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I am like the ocean, I too have a tide clock; at low tide you can see my dirty depths, but when the water of the sea flows back, all you can see is my waves.

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The greatest happiness in life is knowing for sure that we are loved.

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Come after me as soon as you can. I will be so miserable without you even near God. Don't leave it to me (...)! Here was paradise. It's just the sky up there.

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Are you thinking of me? After all, death is so sad when people are no longer thought of! Sometimes I was bad, look at that. I know that if the good Lord wanted it, we could be happy, because we need so little.

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A person becomes intoxicated when the sky moves into his heart. While you were gone, I was dying. You gave me back my seeming life. I felt that something inside me had been torn apart, the darkness was parting, and the beautiful life was flowing back into me hot and feverish. What a strange life you gave back. It's so heavenly it almost hurts. It's as if my soul is growing and can't find a place in my body. It's an angelic feeling, the feeling of fulfillment, it gets in my head and makes me dizzy. As if wings were beating in the place of my heart.

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Some words are also speech, crying and shouting at the same time. All the passion and all the pain merge together and break out in him together.

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What is history? Echoes of the past in the future. The reflection of the future on the past.

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History has no backstage. What disappears from the stage immediately sinks into obscurity. Removed scenery that disappears and is forgotten. The past has a synonym: the Unknown.

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Immobility: appearance; the reality: change.

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The less we understand someone, the more we take their word for it.

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Fate smiles. What's scarier than that? This is the last trick of the inexorable companion of souls, with which he tests man. The tiger-fate sometimes caresses with velvet paws - a fearful game - sweetly flatters the beast. Everyone could notice in themselves how the increase in self-esteem sometimes coincides with complete impotence. The sudden increase relaxes the body and causes fever.

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The deep feelings in his soul made him resistant. But the gust of wind, when exhausted on one side of the horizon, attacks from the other side, and doom, like nature, sometimes erupts. The first attack falters, the second knocks out.

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Not all that glitters shines. Light: truth, but brilliance can also be vanity. Do you think it lights up? Not true: it ignites. It's night time. Someone lights a candle and the lousy tallow turns into a star and shines in the dark. The moth falls into it. Is he responsible for it? The eye of fire bewitches the moth as the gaze of the snake bewitches the bird. Is it possible for the butterfly and the bird not to go there? Can the tree leaf resist the wind? Can a stone resist the law of fall?

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The surprised person gropes the objects, wondering if they are real, and then asks himself, is it really him?

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The fear of little people is crumbling. A person who lives in a crowd is always afraid of being at someone's feet. (...) The state of restlessness is perfectly expressed by these words: then he separates. (...) One does not rest in an unexpected situation. Lesi the possible consequences. One is a little careful: one is waiting for something. What? He doesn't know. who? We will see.

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He listened. This is the instinct of great shocks, they defend much better than we think. Anyone who listens is ready for anything. After all, a slipped word can get into the structure of events, and who knows what kind of wheels it can drag you under.

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Once chance starts playing with you, get ready for it: twist after twist. When fate opens its doors, it throws surprises. If you hit a gap, events will break through one after the other, surprises will come one after the other. The surprise is a blur.

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Whoever has debt already has something.

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Sin exists. Everyone tolerates it and everyone does it. No one is free from the worm of his sins. That's all I'm talking about. Don't we all itch? God scratches where the devil stings.

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Anyone who has seen a blinder knows what fate is. Invisible, floating, emerging objects, people in the hands of fate.

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He who dreams creates. Every desire is a call. Whoever builds castles in the air also forces reality.

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We glimpse a star in the depths of infinite space. We gaze at its light. It's so far away. What can a distant star cause fear? It just moves overnight. A flickering light looms around him. Here, the thought-to-be-indifferent star wanders. It is not a star, but a comet, a terrible incendiary of the sky. The star comes, grows, shakes its crimson curls, grows monstrous, heads towards us. Oh horror, it's heading straight for you! The comet knows you, the comet wants you, the comet wants you. Terrible heavenly rush. Too much light coming your way, you go blind. Too much life, you die. You no longer want Jötté, which covers your sky with light. You don't need the depth of love. You hold your hand in front of your eyes, you retreat, you hide, you think you've escaped... You look up. The awesome star shines above you. But it's not a star anymore, it's a whole world. Unknown world. A glowing mass of lava. A gluttonous wonder of the depths. He fills the sky, there is no one there but him. It was an emerald in the infinity of the sky, it was a diamond from a distance, but it was dull up close. Its flame is roasting. Your fiery death consumes me with heavenly heat.

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Man is infinitely fickle. You can lose your way just like a ship. Conscience is an anchor. And how terrible. Conscience can also fade away.

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Deviations lurk in a person for a long time. Sins prepare their way in us in advance. They lurk inside us even when we still believe ourselves to be innocent and pure. He who has nothing to burden his soul is not blameless.

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A person in whom honest thoughts prevail is like someone who has lost the key to his apartment and breaks down the door to get home. He's breaking in, but rightfully so. It does damage, but in the wrong way.

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Misfortunes come in all directions. Throw a stone into the water and count how many ways it splashes.

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The human right to tears never expires.

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God is the arm; the chance: slingshot; man: pebble. Try to resist if you are blown away.