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Victor Hugo Quotes

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right""The wise man does not grow old, but ripens""The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor""Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?""What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past""To learn to think is to learn to live""Expand the horizon of the possible until it includes the impossible""To love beauty is to see light""What men call knowledge is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances""An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come""A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea""Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education""To contemplate is to look at shadows""Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind""A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them""Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones""Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.""To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.""Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.""Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."