Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.
("Les Miserables")
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.Victor Hugo
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
Victor Hugo
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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