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Quote by Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from t

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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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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Nature
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Victor Hugo
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo

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Time
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I dont know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even when I have hard things happen, He loves me so big, so much. I come through it and I grow from it, because He has got me. – Barbara Mandrell

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Future

Id love to do more action stuff, in the future. – Ashley Tisdale

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Future

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to peoples lives. – Ian Botham

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Future

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes

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Future

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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. – Oriana Fallaci

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My friends never talk to me about my poetry because theyre embarrassed that I write it or theyre embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. – Carol Ann Duffy

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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

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Growth