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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends For good it is a woman sometimes rules, Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools, And laws, and mind succeeding master proud, With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd, The somber human troop.
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Love is the only future God offers.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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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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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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Gavroche had fallen only to rise again he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
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A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!
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Death belongs to God alone by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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