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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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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea ignominy thirsts for respect.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
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The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us and that is the great moment.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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