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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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One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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