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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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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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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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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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