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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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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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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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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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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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The left-handed are precious they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.
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God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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