There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. His opposition to Napoleon III kept him in exile in the Channel Islands for nearly twenty years. He campaigned against the death penalty, and more than a million people attended his funeral in Paris.
About this theme: Time
Time is the one theme here where every author writes from the same position — none of them had more of it than they had. Seneca devoted an essay to it, and his central claim is uncomfortable: we are not given a short life, we spend it in a way that makes it seem short.
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- Lost time is never found again.— Benjamin Franklin
- The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.— Chinese Proverb
- It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.— Seneca
- The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.— Cicero
- The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.— Nikola Tesla