The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of t... - Victor Hugo
"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."
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"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
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