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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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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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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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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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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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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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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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