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Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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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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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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