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.
Victor HugoOne cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
Victor HugoA little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
Victor Hugo