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The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a moment’s silence, Perhaps more so.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates.
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If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
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I believe in religion against the religious in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
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Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)
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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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