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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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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
"A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it's gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won't it always stay the same? Won't it stay with me as long as I live?"
"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"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."
"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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"They are les misA©rables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?"
"England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England."
"At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth."
"Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery."
"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?"
"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."
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