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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!
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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.
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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.
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