The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
("Les Miserables")
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Loving is half of believing.Victor Hugo
The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal.
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We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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