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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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To love beauty is to see light.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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Progress is the life-style of man.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
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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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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
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