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Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, widely esteemed as one of the greatest of French writers and poets.
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Go on philosophers — teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish your alphabets, proclaim human rights, sing your Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear off green branches from the oak trees. Make thought a whirlwind. This multitude can be sublimated. Let us learn to avail ourselves of this vast conflagration of principles and virtues, which occasionally sparkles, bursts, and shudders. These bare feet, these naked arms, these rags, these shades of ignorance, depths of despair, the gloom can be used for the conquest of the ideal. Look through the medium of the people, and you will discern the truth. This lowly sand that you trample underfoot, if you throw it into a furnace and let it melt and seethe, will become sparkling crystal; and thanks to such as this a Galileo and a Newton will discover the stars.
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"ما دام ثمّة - بسبب من القانون والعرف - هلاكٌ اجتماعي يخلق صناعيا وعلى مرأى من الحضارة ومسمع، ضروباً من الجحيم على الأرض ، ويعقد في قضاء بشري محتوم مصيراً هو إلهيٌ ، مادامت مشكلات العصر الثلاث "الحط من قدر الرجل بالفقر ، وتحطيم كرامة المرأة بالجوع، وتقزيم الطفولة بالجهل" لمّا تُحل بعد ، مادام الاختناق الاجتماعي ممكناً ما يزال ... مادام على ظهر هذه الأرض جهلٌ وبؤس، فإن كُتباً مثل هذا الكتاب لا يمكن أن تكون غيرَ ذاتِ غناء."