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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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