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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other. ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume Two, p.842, Wordsworth Editions
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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). Cosette, p.133
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As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them. ✨ Seeds of Revolution: A Collection of Axioms, Passages an … ▶

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other. ✨ Victor Hugo (1994). Les Miserables Volume Two, p.842, Wordsworth Editions

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