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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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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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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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He loved books books are cold but safe friends.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
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I see black light (his last words)
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
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Loving is half of believing.
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Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
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