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When liberty returns, I will return. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' ↗

— Victor Hugo

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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A war between Europeans is a civil war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ↗

— Victor Hugo

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