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I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
Drawer
Essayist
Illustrator
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Novelist
Playwright
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Politician
Travel Writer
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Besac
Victor Marie Hugo
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.
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It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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