"To love beauty is to see light."
"In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die."
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Source: Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100
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