Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. – Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. – Victor Hugo
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley