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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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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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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
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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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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
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To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
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Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.
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Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
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