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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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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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Everything bows to success, even grammar.
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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There is suffering in the light in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated that does not prevent them from being of use.
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