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It is the features of the years that makes up the face of the century.
- Victor Hugo
We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
- Victor Hugo
Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.
- Victor Hugo
It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.
- Victor Hugo
We ourselves respect the past in certain instances and in all cases grant it clemency, provided it consents to being dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack and try to kill it.
- Victor Hugo
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.
- LM Montgomery
I still wish Chelsea and all the players every success. I spent so many years connected to the club. One incident is not going to change that.
- Roberto Di Matteo
Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?
- Milan Kundera
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
- Milan Kundera
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.
- Milan Kundera
Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life as a road, but as a highway
- Milan Kundera