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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1843 AD · industrial
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- Victor Hugo
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- Approximate author period: c. 1843 AD · industrial
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