An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. –

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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. –

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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

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

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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

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