The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over…

Victor Hugo
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ✨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misérables, Viking Pr
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