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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.
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I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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If you are stone, be magnetic if a plant, be sensitive but if you are human be love.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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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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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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