An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
("Les Miserables")
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Be like a bird That pausing in her flight Awhile on boughs to light, Feels them give way Beneath her and yet sings, Knowing that she hath wings.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Protect the workers, encourage the rich.
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