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"The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
History

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
Age

"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful."
Truth

"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
Compassion

"To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them."
Courage

"First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it's not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you've forgotten, don't keep anything."
Love

"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."
Mortality

"Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement."
Art

"Genius: the superhuman in man."
Man

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below."
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Personal Development

"Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered."
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Personal Development

"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."
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Personal Development

"One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares."
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Personal Development

"Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel."
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Personal Development

"Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored."
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Personal Development

"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."
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Personal Development

"Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!"
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Personal Development

"If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?"
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Personal Development

"Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats."
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