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now that they had it they did not care for it.
“A one-eyed man is far less complete than a blind man. He knows what he lacks.”
“Oh!” said he, “I would gladly drown myself, were the water not so cold!”
It was the first moment in the course of many hours when he did not feel that he suffered. The moment was brief.
“If I exist, does this exist? if this exists, do I exist?”
Time is the architect, the nation is the builder.
Their faces not all alike, nor yet different, but such as the faces of sisters ought to be.
It is certain that the mind becomes atrophied in a defective body.
He had picked up the weapon with which he had been wounded.
Yet it was these very bells which had made him deaf; but mothers often love best that child which has caused them the most suffering.
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
All civilization begins in theocracy and ends in democracy. This law of liberty following unity is written in architecture.
But the Crusades arrive. They are a great popular movement, and every great popular movement, whatever may be its cause and object, always sets free the spirit of liberty from its final precipitate.
Provided the priest has his basilica and his altar, he has nothing to say.
Isolation aggrandizes everything.
Oh, how hollow does science sound when one in despair dashes against it a head full of passions!
He stirred up in the depths of his heart all his hatred, all his malevolence; and, with the cold glance of a physician who examines a patient, he recognized the fact that this malevolence was nothing but vitiated love; that love, that source of every virtue in man, turned to horrible things in the heart of a priest, and that a man constituted like himself, in making himself a priest, made himself a demon.
He did not regret, he did not repent; all that he had done he was ready to do again; he preferred to behold her in the hands of the executioner rather than in the arms of the captain.
