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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

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From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the o...more

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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

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Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the id...more

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In moments like these, offering up his heart at the hour that night flowers offer up their perfume, lit up like a lamp in the middle of the starry nig...more

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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He did not seek to assume the mantle of Elijah, to shed a light of the future upon the misty turmoil of events or resolve the prevailing light into a ...more

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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to b...more

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Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.

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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.