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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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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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Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.
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A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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There are no rules for felicity.
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He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.
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Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.
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