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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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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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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
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To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.
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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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God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
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Are you afraid of the good you might do?
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A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?
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The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.
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