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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
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To meditate is to labour to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.
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History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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Never laugh at those who suffer suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.
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Dost thou understand? I love thee! he cried again.What love! said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--The love of a damned soul.
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Emotion is always new and the word has always served therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.
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Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
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