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"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
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"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
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"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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"If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
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"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."
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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
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"The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone."
Mortality
"Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement."
Art
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
History
"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
History
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
People
"Be happy without picking flaws."
Happiness
"Right is just and true."
Justice
"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
God
"For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water."
Philosophy
"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."
Life
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