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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 4, bk. 7, ch. 1 (1862).
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''Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
So that I may leave this place and disappear.''
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. "Veni Vidi Vixi," Les Contemplations (1856).
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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by o...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch. 10 (1862).
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''To love is to act.''
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Written on a scrap of paper two days before the auth...
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dra...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 4, bk. 7, ch. 1 (1862).
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. I...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 4, bk. 10, ch. 2 (1862).
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''Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.''
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. Les Misérables, vol. I, book III, ch. 2 (1862).
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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 1 (1862).
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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.''
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 4, bk. 7, ch. 1 (1862).
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Monasticism, as it existed in Spain and still exists in Tibet, is a wasting disease of civilization. It puts a stop to life. Quite simply, it depopulates. Claustration is castration. It has been the s...
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Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, dramatist, novelist. Les Misérables, pt. 2, bk. 7, ch. 3 (1862).
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Boaz Asleep
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Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight
made his pallet on the threshing floor
where all day he had worked, and now he slept
among the bushels of threshed wheat.
The old man owned wheatfields and barley,
and though he was rich, he was still fair-minded.
No filth soured the sweetness of his well.
No hot iron of torture whitened in his forge.
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