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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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

— Victor Hugo

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. ↗

— 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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