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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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