The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
("Les Miserables")
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Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.Victor Hugo
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
Victor Hugo
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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The beautiful is as useful. Perhaps more so.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.
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