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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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Loving is half of believing.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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All who suffer are full of hatred all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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