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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I was dying when you came.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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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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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word no. To no there is only one answer and that is yes. Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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