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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity in a girl, it is boldness.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.
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Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.
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No religion but blasphemes a little.
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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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