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Music expresses that which ca...

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

What is history? An echo of t...

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

Peace is the virtue of civili...

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Victor Hugo 1217 quotes

Be as a bird perched on a fra...

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

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To learn to read is to light ...

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

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Perseverance, secret of all t...

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

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There is nothing more powerful...

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

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God has bestowed two gifts on ...

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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The spirit of God, like the su...

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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I write with one hand, but I f...

I write with one hand, but I fight with both.

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All roads are blocked to a phi...

All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.' Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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The Parisian is to the French ...

The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of 'la patrie' he enrols, and at the call of li

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Algebra applies to the clouds....

Algebra applies to the clouds.

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Symmetry is tedious, and tediu...

Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.

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A joyous little creature, so b...

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in...

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This child whom we Love, Bring...

This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.

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My greatness does not extend t...

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

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Love is the only future God of...

Love is the only future God offers.

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You ask me what forces me to s...

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

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To pay compliments to the one ...

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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