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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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The wicked envy and hate it is their way of admiring.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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Nature is pitiless she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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