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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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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do the religious. These two words express the two sides of the same fact, which is the infinite. Religion-Science, this is the future of the human mind.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.
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Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.
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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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To be a saint is the exception to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he
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