If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
("Les Miserables")
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Not seeing people permits one to attribute to them all possible perfections.Victor Hugo
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?
Victor Hugo
He had not lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand than the impossible, and what must be looked for is the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
Victor Hugo
Be like a bird That pausing in her flight Awhile on boughs to light, Feels them give way Beneath her and yet sings, Knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
Those who live are those who fight.
Victor Hugo
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