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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.
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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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