#elf

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' ↗

— Victor Hugo

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ↗

— 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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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ↗

— Raymond Hull

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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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