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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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