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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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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Loving is half of believing.
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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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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.
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