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" Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. "
Victor Hugo
Out
Genius
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" It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. "
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" The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. "
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" Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. "
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" Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. "
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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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" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
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" What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. "
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" 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. "
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