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“A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.”

“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”

“Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock — this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!”

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

“A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream?”

“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”

“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr.”

“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”

“Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”

“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

“It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.”

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

“It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.”

“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”

“They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight.”

“Never be afraid of the moments—thus sings the voice of the everlasting.”

“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”

“I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.”

“For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.”

“I go — as others already crucified have gone.”