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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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France is great because she is France.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?
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One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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God put in man thought society, action nature, revery.
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
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