Victor Hugo Quotes About Sacrifice
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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.
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where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?
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Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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