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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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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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France lost a great novel last night.
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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.
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To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman this is all of Heaven.
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.
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Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.
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