Change Quote by Victor Hugo

“As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.” quote by Victor Hugo — Download Open image

““As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it.””

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“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.”

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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

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“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled”

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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Nobody can tell me that no changes are necessary in Washington.

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I hope I continue to evolve.

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