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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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One resists the invasion of armies one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.
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France is great because she is France.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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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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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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Joy is the reflex of terror.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing my conscience.
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