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- I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by…
- I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed…
- In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and…
- From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
- Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.…
- To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to…
- Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless…
- The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,…
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
- I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first…
- Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
- One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
- We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
- Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
- To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
- There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic…
- As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
- The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was…
- To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation…
- Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when…
- Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would…
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
- Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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