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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#day #impossible #like #me #men

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aristocratic #democratic #tastes

No one can keep a secret better than a child. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#child #keep #secret #than

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror? ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#civil-rights #osama-bin-laden #surveillance #terrorism #war-on-terror

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#man #pain #suffers

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#boat #current #does #flowing #going

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#intelligence #scepticism

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#great #great man #man #rest #seems

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#style #subject #substance #surface #unceasingly