A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
Loving is half of believing.
Those who live are those who fight.
Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
Monastic incarceration is castration.
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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