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Victor Hugo

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“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”— Victor Hugo
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“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”— Victor Hugo
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“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”— Victor Hugo
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“People do not lack strength they lack will.”— Victor Hugo
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“We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.”— Victor Hugo
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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.”— Victor Hugo
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“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”— Victor Hugo
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“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”— Victor Hugo
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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.”— Victor Hugo
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“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”— Victor Hugo
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“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”— Victor Hugo
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“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”— Victor Hugo
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“A library implies an act of faith.”— Victor Hugo
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”— Victor Hugo
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“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”— Victor Hugo
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“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”— Victor Hugo
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“Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.”— Victor Hugo
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“To love beauty is to see light.”— Victor Hugo
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“Conscience is God present in man.”— Victor Hugo
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“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”— Victor Hugo
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“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”— Victor Hugo
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“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”— Victor Hugo
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“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”— Victor Hugo
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“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”— Victor Hugo
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“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”— Victor Hugo