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To meditate is to labour to think is to act.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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There shall be no slavery of the mind.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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