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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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Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
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Hope is a delusion no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.
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In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.
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I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.
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Nobody loves the light like the blind man.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
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To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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