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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.
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We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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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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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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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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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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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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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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