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" Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure. "
Victor Hugo
Neither
Nor
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" There is nothing like a dream to create the future. "
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" Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man. "
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" Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. "
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" The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. "
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" The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. "
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" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "
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" Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. "
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" To love beauty is to see light. "
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" The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. "
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" We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. "
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" Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. "
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" As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. "
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" People do not lack strength; they lack will. "
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" The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. "
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" I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. "
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Only
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" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "
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" 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. "
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" A war between Europeans is a civil war. "
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" A library implies an act of faith. "
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" An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. "
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" Liberation is not deliverance. "
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Liberation
Deliverance
" Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. "
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" Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. "
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" Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure. "
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" I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. "
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" Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. "
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