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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Conscience is God present in man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To contemplate is to look at shadows. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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