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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction. ↗

— Cordell Hull

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