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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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History has its truth and so has legend hers.
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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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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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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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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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