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Progress is the life-style of man.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible for the fainthearted, it is unknown but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
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