Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

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