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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word no. To no there is only one answer and that is yes. Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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A poet is a world enclosed in a man.
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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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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea it is heaven there is a spectacle more grand than heaven it is the conscience.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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