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Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! Dismal plain!

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Who can calculate the passage of a particle?

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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

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Chance, if such a thing exists, is far-seeing.

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A nebula is, as it were, a universe in the cocoon.

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These two halves of God, the Pope and the emperor.

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Napoleon... mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.

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God became a man, granted. The devil became a woman.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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God put in man thought; society, action; Nature, revery.

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Earthly paradise: the parents young, the children small.

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The mission of Science is to study and sound everything.

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The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.

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God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool.

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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

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There is but one way of refusing Tomorrow, that is to die.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages.

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Let us suffer if we must, but let us suffer on the heights.

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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies: man is but a witness.

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Popularity — a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

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Laughter is the sun which drives winter from the human face.

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie its pleasure.

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Good actions are the invisible hinges of the doors of heaven.

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In disorder there can be no fecundation. Chaos is a celibate.

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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

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This is the battle between day and night... I see black light.

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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

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