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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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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.
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