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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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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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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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