In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but…

Victor Hugo
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die. ✨ Victor Hugo (1862). Saint Denis, p.100
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die. ✨ Victor Hugo (1862). Saint Denis, p.100

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