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“There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.”

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her…

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“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.”

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to…

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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green…

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“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

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“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…

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

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Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty!

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