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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.
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It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.
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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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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist he was an old-bookist.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.
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As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
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