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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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Love is a fault so be it.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices after philosophy there must be action the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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