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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country the strife will be colossal.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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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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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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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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I am for religion, against religions.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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