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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Since we shall love each other, I shall be great and you shall be rich.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.
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Every idea must have a visible enfolding.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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