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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit a star gleaming in our inward night.
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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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I only take a half share in the civil war I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad later on, it is ominous.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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