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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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There are no rules for felicity.
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