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“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“What a great thing, to be loved! What a greater thing still, to love! The heart becomes heroic though passion…if no one loved, the sun would go out.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.”
― Víctor Hugo, Les Misérables

“where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If no one loved, the sun would go out.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman

“I believe that if anything can save us in this fraught and dazzling future, it is the rage of women and girls, of queers and freaks and sinners. I believe that the revolution will be feminist, and that when it comes it will be more intimate and more shocking than we have dared to imagine.”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
― Victor Hugo

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre

“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”
― Herbert Read