Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.Victor Hugo
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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