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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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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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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 makes night within us may leave stars.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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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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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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