God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
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He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.Ernest Renan
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
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Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
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Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
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