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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
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Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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God is behind everything, but everything hides God.
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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
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Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.
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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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