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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
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Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Travel Writer
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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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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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Progress is the stride of God.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
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You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong the blood flows freely in my veins my limbs obey my will I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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