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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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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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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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