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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.
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