What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the …

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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. ✨ Victor Hugo (2008). The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart. ✨ Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin … ▶
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature. ✨ The Alps and Pyre … ▶
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God. ✨ Contemplations bk. 1, no. 8 (1856)
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. ✨ William Shakespeare. Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. ✨ Victor Hugo (2008). The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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