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" When liberty returns, I will return. "
Victor Hugo
Return
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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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" 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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" A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable. "
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" A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. "
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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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" To contemplate is to look at shadows. "
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" I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss! "
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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. "
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