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“The ideal is nothing but the culminating point of logic, the same as the beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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

“Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs