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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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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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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)
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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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A breath of Paris preserves the soul.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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Out Milky Way is the dwelling the nebulae are the city.
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Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
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Be happy without picking flaws.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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