"A man trying to escape never thinks..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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“Sleep comes more easily than it returns.”
“This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.”
“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”
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“O for a horse with wings!”
“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”
“I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.”