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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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People weighed down with troubles do not look back they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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God secludes Himself but the thinker listens at the door.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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