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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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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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France lost a great novel last night.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.
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