“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”
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Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem, and Hugo is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (known in English also as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though a committed conservative royalist when he was young, Hugo grew more liberal as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. He is buried in the Panthéon. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo
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“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”
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“Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human fa...”
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“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”
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“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.”
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“But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”
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“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.”
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“The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.”
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“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
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“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
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“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
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“The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.”
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“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”
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“Habit is the nursery of errors.”
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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.”
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
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“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
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“When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.”
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“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”
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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
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“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
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