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Quote by Victor Hugo
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. - Victor

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

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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God
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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power
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

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Future
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Other Quotes from
Death
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. – Elie Wiesel

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Death

Suicide is mans way of telling God, You cant fire me – I quit. – Bill Maher

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Death

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. – Donna Shalala

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Death

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. – Henry Miller

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Death

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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Books

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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Happiness

Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. – Author unknown, supposedly from a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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Ignorance

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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Learning