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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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