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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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To contemplate is to look at shadows.
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
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Animals are happy, said the queen. They run no risk of going to hell. They are there already, replied Josiana.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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