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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Loving is half of believing.
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He does not weep who does not see.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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