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

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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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Our acts make or mar us; we are the children of our own deeds.

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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

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Alas! what does man here below? A little noise in much shadow.

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A faith is a necessity to man. Woe to him who believes nothing.

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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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To look facts in the face is the duty of every sensible person.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

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Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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Not seeing people permits us to imagine in them every perfection.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.

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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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