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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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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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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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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars
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