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" A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers. "

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" There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. "

Victor Hugo

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" Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. "

" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "

" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "

" A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. "

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" An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. "

" 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. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. "

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

" Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. "

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

" Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. "

" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "

Victor Hugo

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" Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. "

" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "

" 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. "

Victor Hugo

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Image

" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "

" Toleration is the best religion. "

" The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. "

" Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. "

" I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. "

" By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour. "

" Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. "

" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "

" When liberty returns, I will return. "

" 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. "

" A great artist is a great man in a great child. "

" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "

" I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. "

" An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. "