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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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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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It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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The sewer is the conscience of the city.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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