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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
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They say love is blindness of heart I say not to love is blindness.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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Morality is truth in full bloom.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.
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