What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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• Victor Hugo:

  Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

• Victor Hugo:

  An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

• Victor Hugo:

  Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

• Victor Hugo:

  When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

• Victor Hugo:

  He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

• Victor Hugo:

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

• Victor Hugo:

  Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the sou

• Victor Hugo:

  Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

• Victor Hugo:

  How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melt

• Victor Hugo:

  Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.