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" The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. "
Victor Hugo
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" Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. "
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" Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. "
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" I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. "
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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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" To love another person is to see the face of God. "
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" Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. "
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" The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. "
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" Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. "
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" Life is the flower for which love is the honey. "
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Love Is
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" To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. "
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" It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. "
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" I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. "
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" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
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" The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. "
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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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" There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. "
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