Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme l... - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."

"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."

"Be happy without picking flaws."

"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."