No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...
("Les Miserables")
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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.Victor Hugo
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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It is an error to imagine that fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything whatever.
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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.
Victor Hugo
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.
Victor Hugo
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