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Liberation is not deliverance. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#liberation

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#flesh #invisible #invisible world #luminous #night

Taste is the common sense of genius. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#common sense #genius #sense #taste

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Toleration is the best religion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#religion #toleration

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

— Victor Hugo

#consolation #derive #life #people #troubles

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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