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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.
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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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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
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Love is reducing the universe to one being.
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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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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.
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A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger it is the woman who makes the man go off.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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Labor is life thought is light.
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The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
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