From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved

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The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds.

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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

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