Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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