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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.

Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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There is a secret drawer in every woman's heart.
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These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
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It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.
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The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.
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