"Do you hear the people sing Lost..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?”

“...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables”

“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”

“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”

“Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn”

“People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets”

“When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.”

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”

“There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.”