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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
— Victor Hugo
Tags: adversity

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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
— Victor Hugo
Tags: her, knowing, she, wings, bird
What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
— Victor Hugo
Tags: still, to-love, loved, love
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
— Victor Hugo
Tags: father, brother, son, stars, heart
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
— Victor Hugo
Tags: love, happiness
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
— Victor Hugo
Tags: becomes, fact, right, revolution
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