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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies man is but a witness.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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