"The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.“


-Victor Hugo

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

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