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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available
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I see black light (his last words)
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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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To learn to read is to light a fire every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
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A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.
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Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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