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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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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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I see black light (his last words)
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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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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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People do not lack strength they lack will.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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