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"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."

"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."

"I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for."

"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."
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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"


"They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"


"Common right is nought but the protection of all radiating over the right of each. This protection of all is termed Fraternity. The point of intersection of all these aggregated sovereignties is called Society. This intersection being a junction, this point is a knot. Hence comes what is called the social tie."


"Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing."


"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."
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